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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair.— TENNYSON — The Princess. Canto IV. L. 21.

Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.— TENNYSON — Tithonus. St. 5.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.— FREDERICK TENNYSON — The Golden City. Pt. I.

The big round tears run down his dappled face; He groans in anguish.— THOMSON — Seasons. Autumn. L. 454.

Tears are the silent language of grief.— VOLTAIRE — A Philosophical Dictionary.

Tears. Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. S.— WORDSWORTH — Laodamia.

Lorenzo! hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh? Or studied the philosophy of tears?- * * * * * * Hast thou descended deep into the breast, And seen their source? If not, descend with me, And trace these briny riv'lets to their springs.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 516.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.— WM. R. ALGER — Oriental Poetry.

The Sober Drunkenness. And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Bloody Brother. Song. Act II. Sc. 2.

Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.— BISHOP BERKELEY — Siris. Par. 217.

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam. C.— COWPER — The Progress of Error. L. 557.

Temp'rate in every place-abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either-he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.— CRABBE — The Borough. Letter XVII. L. 198.

Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.— ELYOT — Governour. Bk. III. Ch. XVI.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame, Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor. It is most just to throw that on the ground, Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.— HERBERT — The Temple. The Church Porch. Perirrhanterium. St. 5.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.