“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
Maxim 376
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
Jimmy Magee (1935–2017) Gaelic games commentatot
As Katie Taylor triumphed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. irishtimes.com http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0811/1224321996178.html <br class="br">Olympic Games
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 5 <br class="br"> Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen
“And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Midnight Alley