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  • None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possessed A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

    -Rochdale
    ^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 24.

  • Oh! too convincingdangerously dear In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

    -Rochdale
      The Corsair, canto 2, stanza15.

  • Mighty victor, mighty lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.

    -Thomas Gray
      The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.63^6.

  • Je  sus a pleure , Voltaire a souri; c'est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu'est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle. Jesus wept;Voltairesmiled.Of that divinetearand of that human smile the sweetness of present civilization is composed.

    -Victor Marie Hugo
      Speech on Voltaire's centenary, 30 May.

  • Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

    -1st Baron
      'A  Jacobite's Epitaph', closing lines.

  • Una furtiva lagrima. A furtive tear.

    - Felice Romani
      Nemorino's aria. L'Elisir d'Amore, act 2 (music by Donizetti).

  • Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

    - Sir Sydney Samuelson
      Mauprat.

  • There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries,'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps,'She is late;' The larkspur listens,'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers,'I wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airya tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat; Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.

    -Tennyson
      Maud, pt.1, sect.22, stanzas10^11, l. 908^23.

  • If you can take $20,000 in one-hundred-dollar bills and walk up on a windy hill and tear themup and watchthem blowaway, and it doesn't bother you, thenyoushould go into the commodities market.

    - Don(ald) John Tyson
      In the NewYorker, 30 May.

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