Tears

Tears

Tears are secretions that clean and lubricate the eyes. Lacrimation or lachrymation (from Latin lacrima, meaning "tear") is the production or shedding of tears.

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Famous quotes containing the word tears:

    “His tears run down his beard like winter’s drops
    From eaves of reeds.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor’s tears abound,
    And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found.
    Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight,
    Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world’s delight.”
    —Fulke Greville (1554–1628)

    “we Reap in joy the fruit
    Which we in bitter tears did sow.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)