“Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
III. 1, Line 12 <br class="br"> The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)
“The social smile, the sympathetic tear.”
Education and Government; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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