Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The tears of a young widow lose their bitterness when wiped by the hands of love.

If ever you have looked on better days, if ever been where bells have knolled to church, if ever sat at any good man's feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what it is to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement sue. [ William Shakespeare ]