n._

Blest tears of soul-felt penitence.--_Moore._

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land
where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides
that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones
walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen,
so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find
our dear ones in heaven.--_Beecher._

The kind oblation of a falling tear.--_Dryden._

A penitent's tear is an undeniable ambassador, and never returns from
the throne of grace unsatisfied.--_Spencer._

Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears.--_Dryden._

We praise the dramatic poet who possesses the art of drawing tears, a
power which he has in common with the meanest onion.--_Heinrich Heine._

Her tears her only eloquence.--_Rogers._

Eye-offending brine.--_Shakespeare._

The tears which flow, and the honors that are paid, when the founders of
the republic die, give hope that the republic itself may be
immortal.--_Daniel Webster._

All my mother came into mine eyes, and gave me up to
tears.--_Shakespeare._

The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps,
by a smile.--_Cowper._

Virtue is the daughter of Religion. Her sole treasure is her
tears.--_Madame Swetchine._

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.--_George Herbert._

My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops
of sorrow.--_Shakespeare._

Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew.--_Dryden._

Tears are sometimes the happiest smiles of love.--_Stendhal._

~Tediousness.~--The sin of excessive length.--_Shirley._

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy
man.--_Shakespeare._

~Teeth.~--Teeth like falling snow for white.--~Cowley.~

Such a pearly row of teeth that sovereignty would have pawned her jewels
for them.--_Sterne._

~Temperance.~--Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour
in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in
the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.--_Franklin._

I consider the temperance cause the foundation of all social and
political reform.--_Cobden._

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails,
then education must fail.--_Horace Mann._

Temperance to be a virtue must be free and not forced. Virtue may be
defended, as vice may be withstood, by a st