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 convincingödangerously dearö 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.

-Gray,Thomas
  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.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  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.

-Romani, Felice
  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.

-Samuelson, Sir Sydney
  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.

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