*Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed with them. Bovee.

*The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. Hosea Ballou.

*Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by. Aaron Hill.

*Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears. Juvenal.

*Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart. Walter Scott.

*What I should say/My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,/Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes. Shakespeare.

*So looks the lily after a shower, while drops of rain ran gently down its silken leaves, and gather sweetness as they pass. Fielding.

*Pride dries the tears the anger and vexation, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else. Mme. Swetchine.

*It were easier to stop Euphrates at its source than one tear of a true and tender heart. Byron.

*Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this. James Martineau.

*The good widow's sorrow is no storm, but a still rain...Fuller.

*I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tenser for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly. Lowell.

*There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving.

*A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak. Thackeray.

*God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness; and laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Leigh Hunt.

*No radiant pearl, which crested fortune wears,/No gem, that twinkling hands from beauty's ears;/Not the bright stars, which night's blue arch adorn;/Nor rising sun that gilds the vernal morn;/Shine with such lustre as the tear, that flows/Down virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. Darwin.

*The glorious Angel, who was keeping/The gates of Light, beheld her weeping;/And, as he nearer drew and listen'd/To her sad song, a tear-drop glisten'd/Within his eyelids, like the spray/From Eden's fountain, where it lies/On the blue flow'r, which--Bramins say--/Blooms nowhere but in Paradise. Moore.

*Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to which the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears. Bulwer-Lytton.

*Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? Colton. (Ha! Remember this!)

*A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. Guthrie.

*The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. La Rochefoucauld.

*The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. Empson.

*With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and "good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete. From the German.

*Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures than the indulgence of an ill temper. Blair.

*Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another; since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences. Addison.

*If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous. Isaac Barrow.

*A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Addison.

*Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to? John Angell James.

*Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid. Emerson.

*Temperament is wax before the human will and God. Natural traits are powerless before moral decision. Anonymous.

*In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. Hazlitt.

*Temperance is the nurse of chastity. Wycherley.

*Drinking water neither makes a man sick (well, maybe not anymore!), nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. John Neal.

*Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. Shakespeare.

*In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance. Joubert.

*Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. Fuller.

*Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. Theodore Parker.

*Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts. Claudian.

*It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale? Sydney Smith.

*Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. Jeremy Taylor.

*There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. Socrates.

*Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business. Jeremy Collier.

*There is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse ...Dean South.

*Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. Dryden.

*God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. William Penn.

*Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of self-confidence. Fenelon.

*He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop. South.

*The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation. Fenelon.

*Obscurity and innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor in contact with the world. Chamfort.

*Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations. Goethe.

*The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. Mlle. de Scuderi.

*One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. Lowell.

*An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company. Richardson.

*The devil is very near at hand to those who, like monarchs, are accountable to none but God for their actions. Gustavus Adolphus.

*If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil; his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome. William Penn.

*But Satan now is wiser than of yore,/And tempts by making rich, not making poor. Pope.

*The time for reasoning is before we have approached near enough to the forbidden fruit to look at it and admire. Margaret Percival.

*Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is. Thomas a Kempis.

*If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat. Richter.

*The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation. Hare.

*A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin. Thomas Paine.

*Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two. George Eliot. (Being responsible!)

*I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength. Mrs. Jameson.

*I thank you for your voices; thank you;/Your most sweet voices. Shakespeare.

*Our whole life should speak forth our thankfulness; every condition and place we are in should be a witness of our thankfulness. This will make the times and places we live in better for us. When we ourselves are monuments of God's mercy, it is fit we should be patterns of His praises, and leave monuments to others. We should think it given to us to do something better than to live in. We live not to live; our life is not the end of itself, but the praise of the giver. R. Libbes.

*Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life, where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in every, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace. Phillips Brooks.

*If there is one peril more than another which threatens our prosperity, it is that indifference to our mercies which might provoke God to withdraw them. Dr. William Adams.

*We sleep in the midst of untouched harps of blessing. Let us arise and sweep their strings on this Thanksgiving Day. Dr. David J. Burrell.

*The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system. J.G. Holland.

*The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. Earl of Beaconsfield.

*Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. Lavater.