_Pr._
=Let dogs delight to bark and bite, / For God
hath made them so.= _Watts._
=Let each tailor mend his own coat.= _Pr._
=Let every bird sing its own note.= _Dan. Pr._
=Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust
no agent.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Let every fox take care of his own brush.= 35
_Pr._
=Let every herring hang by its own tail.=
_Irish Pr._
=Let every man be fully persuaded in his own
mind.= _St. Paul._
=Let every man come to God in his own way.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Let every man do what he was made for.=
_Pr._
=Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.= 40
_Pr._
=Let every minute be a full life to thee.= _Jean
Paul._
=Let every one inquire of himself what he
loveth, and he shall resolve himself of
whence he is a citizen.= _S. Augustine._
=Let every one look to himself, and no one will
be lost.= _Dut. Pr._
=Let every tailor keep to his goose.= _Pr._
=Let every thought too, soldier-like, be= 45
=stripped, / And roughly looked over.= _P. J.
Bailey._
=Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; / What's he to
me or I to him?= _Churchill._
=Let fate do her worst; there are moments of
joy, / Bright dreams of the past, which she
cannot destroy; / Which come in the nighttime
of sorrow and care, / And bring back
the features that joy used to wear.= _Moore._
=Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me, /
I have a soul that, like an ample shield, /
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.=
_Dryden._
=Let fouk bode weel, and strive to do their
best; / Nae mair's required; let Heaven
mak' out the rest.= _Allan Ramsay._
=Let gleaners glean, though crops be lean.= 50
_Pr._
=Let go desire, and thou shalt lay hold on
peace.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let go quarrel and contention, nor embroil
thyself in trouble and differences by being
over-solicitous in thy own defence.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs
down a hill, lest it break thy neck with
following it; but the great one that goes
up the hill, let him draw thee after.= _Lear_,
ii. 4.
=Let grace our selfishness expel, / Our earthliness
refine.= _Gurney._
=Let her= (woman) =make herself her own, / To= 55
=give or keep, to live, and learn, and be, /
All that not harms distinctive womanhood.=
_Tennyson._
=Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The
cat will mew, and dog will have his day.=
_Ham._, v. 1.
=Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; / So
may he cease to write, and learn to think.=
_Prior._
=Let him count himself happy who lives remote
from the gods of this world.= _Goethe._
=Let him tak' his fling, and find oot his ain
wecht= (weight). _Sc. Pr._
=Let him that does not know you buy you.= 5
_Pr._
=Let him that earns eat.= _Pr._
=Let him that stole steal no more; but rather
let him labour, working with his hands the
thing which is good, that he may have to
give to him that needeth.= _St. Paul._
=Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall.= _St. Paul._
=Let him who gives say nothing, and him who
receives speak.= _Port. Pr._
=Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or= 10
=uncertain light, and prays vehemently that
the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept
well to heart: "Do the duty which lies
nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a
duty! Thy second duty will already have
become clearer.= _Carlyle._
=Let him who has hold of the devil keep hold of
him; he is not likely to catch him a second
time in a hurry.= _Goethe._
=Let him who is reduced to beggary first try
every one and then his friend.= _It. Pr._
=Let him who is well off stay where he is.= _Pr._
=Let him who knows not how to pray go to sea.=
_Pr._
=Let him who sleeps too much borrow the pillow= 15
=of a debtor.= _Sp. Pr._
=Let him who would move and convince others
be first moved and convinced himself. Let a
man but speak forth with genuine earnestness
the thought, the emotion, the actual
condition of his own heart, and other men, so
strangely are we all knit together by the tie
of sympathy, must and will give heed to him.=
_Carlyle._
=Let him who would write heroic poems make
his life a heroic poem.= _Milton._
=Let ilka ane soop= (sweep) =before his ain door.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Let it be your first care not to be in any man's
debt.= _Johnson._
=Let it not be grievous to thee to humble and= 20
=submit thyself to the capricious humours
of men with whom thou conversest in this
world, but rather ... endure patiently
whatever they shall, but should not, do to
thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let it not be imagined that the life of a good
Christian must necessarily be a life of
melancholy and gloominess; for he only
resigns some pleasures, to enjoy others infinitely
greater.= _Pascal._
=Let John Bull beware of John Barleycorn.=
_Pr._
=Let justice guide your feet.= _Hipparchus._
=Let knowledge grow from more to more, / But
more of reverence in us dwell.= _Tennyson._
=Let man be noble, helpful, and good, for that= 25
=alone distinguishes him from every other
creature we know.= _Goethe._
=Let man's own sphere confine his view.=
_Beattie._
=Let May be oot= (out) =before you cast a cloot=
(a piece of clothing). _Sc. Pr._
=Let me be cruel, not unnatural; / I will speak
daggers to her, but use none. / My tongue
and soul in this be hypocrites.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Let me die to the sounds of the delicious
music.= _Last words of Mirabeau._
=Let me have men about me that are fat; /= 30
=Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o'
nights; / Yond' Cassius has a lean and
hungry look; / He thinks too much; such
men are dangerous.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Let me have no lying; it becomes none but
tradesmen.= _Winter's Tale_, iv. 3.
=Let me keep from vice myself, and pity it in
others.= _Goldsmith._
=Let me make the ballads of a people, and I
care not who makes the laws.= _Quoted by
Fletcher of Saltoun._
=Let me play the fool; / With mirth and
laughter let old wrinkles come, / And let
my liver rather heat with wine / Than my
heart cool with mortifying groans.= _Mer. of
Ven._, i. 1.
=Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross= 35
=my prayers.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 1.
=Let me still take away the harms I fear, /
Not fear still to be taken.= _Lear_, i. 4.
=Let me tell the adventurous stranger, / In
our calmness lies our danger; / Like a river's
silent running, / Stillness shows our depth
and cunning.= _Durfey._
=Let me warn you very earnestly against
scruples.= _Johnson._
=Let men know that they are men, created by
God, responsible to God, who work in any
meanest moment of time what will last
through eternity.= _Carlyle's version of John
Knox's gospel to the Scotch._
=Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to= 40
=duty, if they will. You have time and eternity
to rejoice in.= _Theodore Parker._
=Let men see, let them know, a real man, who
lives as he was meant to live.= _M. Aurelius._
=Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, /
But still remember what the Lord hath
done.= 2 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
=Let never maiden think, however fair, / She is
not finer in new clothes than old.= _Tennyson._
=Let no complaisance, no gentleness of temper,
no weak desire of pleasing on your part, no
wheedling, coaxing, nor flattery on other
people's, make you recede one jot from any
point that reason and prudence have bid you
pursue.= _Chesterfield._
=Let no man be called happy before his death.= 45
_Solon._
=Let no man doubt the omnipotence of nature,
doubt the majesty of man's soul; let no lonely
unfriended son of genius despair. If he have
the will, the right will, then the power also
has not been denied him.= _Carlyle._
=Let no man measure by a scale of perfection
the meagre product of reality.= _Schiller._
=Let no man think he is loved by any man,
when he loves no man.= _Epictetus._
=Let no man trust the first false step of guilt;
it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent
in last perdition ends.= _Young._
=Let no man value at a little price a virtuous
woman's counsel.= _George Chapman._
=Let no mean spirit of revenge tempt you to
throw off your loyalty to your country, and
to prefer a vicious celebrity to obscurity
crowned with piety and virtue.= _Sydney
Smith._
=Let no one so conceive of himself as if he were
the Messiah the world was praying for.=
_Goethe._
=Let no one think that he can conquer the first
impressions of his youth.= _Goethe._
=Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy;= 5
=even love unreturned has its rainbow.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Let nobility and virtue keep company, for they
are nearest of kin.= _William Penn._
=Let none admire / That riches grow in hell;
that soil may best / Deserve the precious
bane.= _Milton._
=Let none henceforth seek needless cause
t' approve / The faith they owe; when
earnestly they seek / Such proof, conclude
they then begin to fail.= _Milton._
=Let none presume / To wear an undeservéd
dignity.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast= 10
=himself as he that putteth it off.= _Bible._
=Let not man tempt the gods, or ever desire to
pry into what they graciously conceal under
a veil of darkness or terror.= _Schiller._
=Let not mercy and truth forsake thee.= _Bible._
=Let not mirth turn to mischief.= _Pr._
=Let not my bark in calm abide, / But win her
cheerless way against the chafing tide.=
_Keble._
=Let not one enemy be few, nor a thousand= 15
=friends many, in thy sight.= _Heb. Pr._
=Let not one look of fortune cast you down; /
She were not fortune if she did not frown; /
Such as do braveliest bear her scorns
awhile / Are those on whom at last she
most will smile.= _Orrery._
=Let not plenty make you dainty.= _Pr._
=Let not poverty part good company.= _Pr._
=Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed
and board; but let truth and love and honour
and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.= _Emerson._
=Let not the grass grow on the path of friendship.= 20
_American-Indian Pr._
=Let not the remembrance of thy former trials
discourage thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let not the sun go down upon your wrath=, _i.e._,
let it set with the sun, or, as Ruskin suggests, let
it never go down so long as the wrong is there.
_St. Paul._
=Let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything
before God: for God is in heaven, and thou
upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.=
_Bible._
=Let not thy left hand know what thy right
hand doeth.= _Jesus._
=Let not your money become your master.= _Pr._ 25
=Let not your mouth swallow you.= _Pr._
=Let not your sail be bigger than your boat.=
_Ben Jonson._
=Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory.=
_St. Paul._
=Let nothing in excess be done; with this let
all comply.= _Anon._
=Let observation, with extensive view, / Survey= 30
=mankind, from China to Peru; / Remark each
anxious toil, each eager strife, / And watch
the busy scenes of crowded life.= _Johnson._
=Let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other
healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of
pain.= _Othello_, iii. 4.
=Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is
always criminal.= _St. Evremond._
=Let present rapture, comfort, ease, / As heaven
shall bid them, come and go; / The secret
this of rest below.= _Keble._
=Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.=
_Chapman, Jonson, and Marston._
=Let prideful priests do battle about creeds, /= 35
=The Church is mine that does most Christ-like
deeds.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let prudence number o'er each sturdy son, /
Who life and wisdom at one race begun.=
_Burns._
=Let rumours be, when did not rumours fly?=
_Tennyson._
=Let sleeping dogs lie.= _Sc. Pr._
=Let still the woman take / An elder than herself;
so wears she to him, / So sways she
level in her husband's heart; / For, boy,
however we do praise ourselves, / Our fancies
are more giddy and unfirm, / More longing,
wavering, sooner lost and worn / Than
women's are.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=Let such teach others who themselves excel, /= 40
=And censure freely who have written well.=
_Pope._
=Let that which is lost be for God.= _Sp. Pr._
=Let the angry person always have the quarrel
to himself.= _Rev. John Clark._
=Let the best horse leap the hedge first.= _Pr._
=Let the cobbler stick to his last.= _Pr._
=Let the dainty rose awhile / Her bashful fragrance= 45
=hide; / Rend not her silken veil too
soon, / But leave her, in her own soft noon, /
To flourish and abide.= _Keble._
=Let the dead bury their dead=, _i.e._, let the
spiritually dead bury the bodily dead. _Jesus._
=Let the devil catch you by a hair, and you are
his for ever.= _Lessing._
=Let the devil get into the church, and he will
soon be on the altar.= _Ger. Pr._
=Let the foibles of the great rest in peace.=
_Goldsmith._
=Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.= 50
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=Let the great book of the world be your
principal study.= _Chesterfield._
=Let the great world spin forever down the
ringing grooves of change.= _Tennyson._
=Let the matter be good, and let the manner
befit it.= _Spurgeon._
=Let the night come before we praise the day.= _Pr._
=Let the path be open to talent.= _Napoleon._ 55
_See La Carrière._
=Let the reader have seen before he attempts
to oversee.= _Carlyle._
=Let the road be rough and dreary, / And its
end far out of sight, / Foot it bravely!
strong or weary, / "Trust in God, and do
the right."= _Dr. Norman Macleod._
=Let the shoemaker stick to his last, the peasant
to his plough, and let the prince understand
how to rule.= _Goethe._
=Let the thing we do be what it will, it is the
principle upon which we do it that must
recommend it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let the tow= (rope) =gang wi' the bucket.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Let the world slide, let the world go; / A fig
for care, and a fig for woe! / If I can't pay,
why, I can owe, / And death makes equal
the high and low.= _Heywood._
=Let the world wag.= _Pr._
=Let the young people mind what the old people= 5
=say, / And where there is danger keep out
of the way.= _Pr._
=Let them call it mischief; / When it is past
and prosper'd it will be virtue.= _Ben Jonson._
=Let them obey that know not how to rule.=
2 _Hen. VI._, v. 1.
=Let there be thistles, there are grapes; / If
old things, there are new; / Ten thousand
broken lights and shapes, / Yet glimpses of
the true.= _Tennyson._
=Let thine eyes look right on.= _Bible._
=Let this be an example for the acquisition of= 10
=all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the
fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is
filled.= _Hitopadesa._
=Let those have night that love the night.=
_Quarles._
=Let those who believe in immortality enjoy
their belief in silence, and give themselves
no airs about it.= _Goethe._
=Let those who hope for brighter shores no
more, / Not mourn, but turning inland,
bravely seek / What hidden wealth redeems
the shapeless shore.= _Eugene Lee
Hamilton._
=Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's
gate / Open for thee, or both may come too
late.= _George Herbert._
=Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and= 15
=the second will be what thou wilt.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway.=
_Twelfth Night_, iv. 1.
=Let thy great deeds force fate to change her
mind; / He that courts fortune boldly, makes
her kind.= _Dryden._
=Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where, /
And when, and how thy business may be
done, / Slackness breeds worms; but the
sure traveller, / Though he alights sometimes,
still goeth on.= _George Herbert._
=Let thy mind's sweetness have his operation /
Upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.=
_George Herbert._
=Let thy words be few.= _Bible._ 20
=Let us a little permit Nature to take her own
way; she better understands her own affairs
than we.= _Montaigne._
=Let us approach our friend with an audacious
trust in the truth of his heart, in the breadth,
impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.=
_Emerson._
=Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, /
Which He hath given for fence impregnable, /
And with these helps only defend ourselves; /
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.=
3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=Let us be content in work / To do the thing
we can, and not presume / To fret because
it's little.= _E. B. Browning._
=Let us be men with men, and always children= 25
=before God.= _Joubert._
=Let us be poised, and wise, and our own
to-day.= _Emerson._
=Let us be silent, for so are the gods.= _Emerson._
=Let us beware that our rest become not the
rest of stones, which, so long as they are
torrent-tossed and thunder-stricken, maintain
their majesty; but when the stream
is silent and the storm passed, suffer the
grass to cover them and the lichen to feed
upon them, and are ploughed down into
dust.= _Ruskin._
=Let us do the work of men while we bear the
form of them.= _Ruskin_
=Let us endeavour to see things as they are,= 30
=and then inquire whether we ought to complain.=
_Johnson._
=Let us enjoy the cloven flame whilst it glows
on our walls.= _Emerson._
=Let us fear the worst, but work with faith;
the best will always take care of itself.=
_Victor Hugo._
=Let us have faith that right makes might, and
in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we
understand it.= _Lincoln._
=Let us have the crisis; we shall either have
death or the cure.= _Carlyle._
=Let us know what to love, and we shall know= 35
=also what to reject; what to affirm, and we
shall know also what to deny; but it is dangerous
to begin with denial and fatal to end
with it.= _Carlyle._
=Let us learn upon earth those things that can
call us to heaven.= _St. Jerome._
=Let us leave the question of origins to those
who busy themselves with insoluble problems,
and have nothing better to do.=
_Goethe._
=Let us make haste to live, since every day to
a wise man is a new life.= _Sen._
=Let us march intrepidly wherever we are led
by the course of human accidents. Where-ever
they lead us, on what coasts soever we
are thrown by them, we shall not find ourselves
absolutely strangers.= _Bolingbroke._
=Let us not burden our remembrances with /= 40
=A heaviness that's gone.= _The Tempest_, v. 1.
=Let us not make imaginary evils when we
have so many real ones to encounter.= _Goldsmith._
=Let us not strive to rise too high, that we may
not fall too low.= _Schiller._
=Let us not throw away any of our days upon
useless resentment, or contend who shall
hold out longest in stubborn malignity.=
_Johnson._
=Let us th' important "now" employ, / And live
as those who never die.= _Burns._
=Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart= 45
=for every fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, /
Learn to labour and to wait.=
_Longfellow._
=Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what
we think, and in all things / Keep ourselves
loyal to truth and the sacred professions of
friendship.= _Longfellow._
=Let us try what esteem and kindness can
effect.= _Johnson._
=Let vain men pursue vanity; leave them to
their own methods.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning
die, / But leave us still our old nobility.=
_Lord J. Manners._
=Let wealth shelter and cherish unprotected
merit, and the gratitude and celebrity of
that merit will richly repay it.= _Burns._
=Let whatever you are and whatever you do,
grow out of a firm root of truth and a strong
soil of reality.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let Whig and Tory stir their blood; / There
must be stormy weather; / But for some
true result of good, / All parties work together.=
_Tennyson._
=Let woman learn betimes to serve according= 5
=to her destination, for only by serving will
she at last learn to rule, and attain the influence
that belongs to her in the household.=
_Goethe._
=Let women spin, not preach.= _Pr._
=Let your daily wisdom of life be in making a
good use of the opportunities given you.=
_Prof. Blackie._
=Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness
of your manner, but let them feel, at
the same time, the steadiness of your just
resentment.= _Chesterfield._
=Let your literary compositions be kept from
the public eye for nine years at least.= _Hor._
=Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper,= 10
=look at the ceiling, bite your nails,
and otherwise dally with your purpose, and
you waste your time, scatter your thoughts,
and repress the nervous energy necessary
for your task.= _G. H. Lewes._
=Let your purse be your master.= _Pr._
=Let your reason with your choler question....
To climb steep hills / Requires slow pace at
first.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=Let your rule in reference to your social sentiments
be simply this; pray for the bad, pity
the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence
both the great and the small, as playing
each his part aptly in the divine symphony
of the universe.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned
with salt, that ye may know how to answer
every man.= _St. Paul._
=Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes.= 15
_Pr._
=Let's live with that small pittance which we
have; / Who covets more is evermore a
slave.= _Herrick._
=Let's not unman each other--part at once; /
All farewells should be sudden when for
ever, / Else they make an eternity of
moments, / And clog the last sad sands of
life with tears.= _Byron._
=Let's take the instant by the forward top; /
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees /
Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time /
Steals ere we can effect them.= _All's Well_,
v. 3.
=Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,
not to out-sport discretion.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Letters may be always made out of the books= 20
=of the morning or talk of the evening.=
_Johnson._
=Letters of mere compliment, congratulation,
or affected condolence, which have cost the
authors most labour in composing, never fail
of being the most disagreeable and insipid to
the readers.= _Blair._
=Letters that are warmly sealed are often
coldly opened.= _Jean Paul._
=Letters without virtue are like pearls in a
dunghill.= _Cervantes._
=Letting down buckets into empty wells, and
growing old with drawing nothing up.=
_Cowper._
=Lettres de cachet=--Warrants of imprisonment 25
under royal seal, liberally issued in France before
the Revolution.
=Leuk twice or ye loup ance=, _i.e._, look twice
before you leap once. _Sc. Pr._
=Leve æs alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum=--A
small debt makes a man your debtor, a
large one your enemy. _Sen._
=Leve fit quod bene fertur onus=--The burden
which is cheerfully borne becomes light. _Ovid._
=Leve incommodum tolerandum est=--A slight
inconvenience must be endured. _M._
=Leve= (trust) =none better than thyself.= _Hazlitt's_ 30
_Poems._
=Level roads run out from music to every side.=
_Goethe._
=Leves homines futuri sunt improvidi=--Light-minded
men are improvident of the future. _Tac._
=Levia perpessi sumus, / Si flenda patimur=--Our
sufferings are light, if they are merely such
as we should weep for.
=Leviores sunt injuriæ, quæ repentino aliquo
motu accidunt, quam eæ quæ meditate præparata
inferuntur=--The injuries which befall
us unexpectedly are less severe than those which
we are deliberately anticipating. _Cic._
=Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest=--Grief 35
is light which can take advice. _Sen._
=Levis sit tibi terra=--May the earth lie light on
thee.
=Levity is a prettiness in a child, a disgraceful
defect in men, and a monstrous folly in old
age.= _La Roche._
=Levity is often less foolish, and gravity less
wise, than each of them appears.= _Colton._
=Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that
is good and virtuous.= _Sen._
=Levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est= 40
=nefas=--Whatever cannot be amended becomes
easier to bear if we exercise patience. _Hor._
=Levius solet timere qui propius timet=--A man's
fears are lighter when the danger is near at hand.
_Sen._
=Lex aliquando sequitur æquitatem=--Law is
sometimes according to equity. _L._
=Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum
quam publicum malum=--The law will sooner
tolerate a private loss than a public evil. _Coke._
=Lex neminem cogit ad impossibilia=--The law
compels no one to do what is impossible. _L._
=Lex non scripta=--The common law. 45
=Lex prospicit non respicit=--The law is prospective,
not retrospective. _L._
=Lex scripta=--The statute law.
=Lex talionis=--The law of retaliation.
=Lex terræ=--The law of the land.
=Lex universa est quæ jubet nasci et mori=--There 50
is a universal law which commands that
we shall be born and shall die. _Pub. Syr._
=Liars act like the salt-miners; they undermine
the truth, but leave just so much standing
as is necessary to support the edifice.= _Jean
Paul._
=Liars are always ready to take oath.= _Alfieri._
=Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes
in the world.= _Epictetus._
=Liars ought to have good memories.= _Sidney._
=Libenter homines id, quod volunt, credunt=--Men
are fain to believe what they wish. _Cæsar._
=Libera chiesa in libero stato=--A free church in 5
a free state. _Cavour._
=Libera Fortunæ mors est: capit omnia tellus /
Quæ genuit=--Death is not subject to fortune;
the earth contains everything which she ever
brought forth. _Luc._
=Libera me ab homine malo, a meipso=--Deliver me
from the evil man, from myself. _St. Augustine._
=Libera te metu mortis=--Deliver thyself from the
fear of death. _Sen._
=Liberality consists less in giving profusely
than in giving judiciously.= _La Bruyère._
=Liberality is not giving largely but wisely.= _Pr._ 10
=Libertas=--Liberty. _M._
=Libertas est potestas faciendi id quod jure
licet=--Liberty consists in the power of doing
what the law permits. _L._
=Libertas in legibus=--Liberty under the laws. _M._
=Libertas, quæ sera, tamen respexit inertem=--Liberty,
which, though late, regarded me in my
helpless state. _Virg._
=Libertas sub rege pio=--Liberty under a pious 15
king. _M._
=Libertas ultima mundi / Quo steterit ferienda
loco=--In the spot where liberty has made her
last stand she was fated to be smitten. _Lucan._
=Liberté toute entière=--Liberty perfectly entire.
_M._
=Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm
of the nineteenth century. The very men
who would once have been conspicuous
saints are now conspicuous revolutionists,
for while their heroism and disinterestedness
are their own, the direction which these
qualities take is determined by the pressure
of the age.= _H. W. Lecky._
=Liberty comes with Christianity, because
Christianity develops and strengthens the
mass of men.= _Ward Beecher._
=Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome= 20
=restraint.= _Webster._
=Liberty has no actual rights which are not
grafted upon justice.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Liberty has no crueller enemy than license.=
_Fr. Pr._
=Liberty is a principle; its community is its
security; exclusiveness is its doom.= _Kossuth._
=Liberty is a slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is
made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment
and perfectness of man.= _Emerson._
=Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes= 25
=and its martyrs in almost every age.= _Chapin._
=Liberty is God's gift; liberties are the devil's.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Liberty is not idleness; it is an unconstrained
use of time. To be free is not to be doing
nothing; it is to be one's own master as to
what one ought to do or not to do.= _La
Bruyère._
=Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and
to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured
that men most commonly seek to oblige thee
only that they may engage thee to serve
them.= _Saadi._
=Liberty is one of the most precious gifts that
Heaven has bestowed on man, and captivity
is the greatest evil that can befall him.=
_Cervantes._
=Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political= 30
=growth, the result of free individual action,
energy, and independence.= _S. Smiles._
=Liberty is the right of doing whatever the
laws permit.= _Montesquieu._
=Liberty is to the collective body what health
is to every individual body. Without health
no pleasure can be tasted by man; without
liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by
society.= _Bolingbroke._
=Liberty is to the lowest rank of every nation
little more than the choice of working or
starving.= _Johnson._
=Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of
liberty as well as by the abuse of power.=
_Madison._
=Liberty must be a mighty thing, for by it= 35
=God punishes and rewards nations.= _Mme.
Swetchine._
=Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.=
_Burke._
=Liberty of thinking and expressing our
thoughts is always fatal to priestly power,
and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly
founded.= _Hume._
=Liberty raises us to the gods; holiness prostrates
us on the ground.= _Amiel._
=Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant
of rapid growth.= _Washington._
=Liberty will not descend to a people; a people= 40
=must raise themselves to liberty; it is a
blessing that must be earned before it can
be enjoyed.= _Colton._
=Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere
vastly more attractive to a noble soul than
good social order without it, than society
like a flock of sheep, or a machine working
like a watch. This mechanism makes of
man only a product; liberty makes him the
citizen of a better world.= _Schiller._
=Liberum arbitrium=--Free will.
=Libidinosa et intemperans adolescentia effœtum
corpus tradit senectuti=--A sensual and
intemperate youth transmits to old age a worn-out
body. _Cic._
=Libido effrenata effrenatam appetentiam efficit=--Unbridled
gratification produces unbridled desire.
_Pr._
=Libito fè licito=--What pleased her she made law. 45
_Dante._
=Libra justa justitiam servat=--A just balance preserves
justice.
=Libraries are as the shrines where all the
relics of saints full of true virtue, and that
without delusion and imposture, are preserved
and reposed.= _Bacon._
=Libraries are the wardrobes of literature,
whence men, properly informed, might bring
forth something for ornament, much for
curiosity, and more for use.= _J. Dyer._
=License they mean when they cry liberty.=
_Milton._
=Liceat concedere veris=--We are free to yield to 50
truth. _Hor._
=Licet superbus ambules pecunia, / Fortuna
non mutat genus=--Although you strut insolent
in your wealth, your fortune does not change
your low birth. _Hor._
=Licht und Geist, jenes im Phyischen, dieses
im Sittlichen herrschend, sind die höchsten
denkbaren untheilbaren Energien=--Light and
spirit, the one sovereign in the physical, the other
in the moral, are the highest conceivable indivisible
potences at work in the universe. _Goethe._
=Licuit, semperque licebit / Parcere personis,
dicere de vitiis=--It has ever been, and ever will
be, lawful to spare the individual but to censure
the vice.
=Lie not in the mire, and say, "God help!"=
_Pr._
=Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God.
Let mouth and heart be one; beat and
speak together, and make both felt in action.
It is for cowards to lie.= _George Herbert._
=Liebe bleibt die goldne Leiter / Darauf das= 5
=Herz zum Himmel steigt=--Love is ever the
golden ladder whereby the heart ascends to
heaven. _Geibel._
=Liebe ist die ältest-neuste / Einz'ge Weltbegebenheit=--Love
is the oldest-newest sole
world-event. _Rückert._
=Liebe kann nicht untergehen; / Was verwest,
muss auferstehen=--Love cannot perish; what
decays must come to life again. _J. G. Jacobi._
=Liebe kann viel, Geld kann alles=--Love cannot
do much; money everything. _Ger. Pr._
=Liebe kennt der allein, der ohne Hoffnung
liebt=--He alone knows what love is who loves
without hope. _Schiller._
=Liebe ohne Gegenliebe ist wie eine Frage= 10
=ohne Antwort=--Love unreciprocated is like a
question without an answer. _Ger. Pr._
=Liebe schwärmet auf allen Wegen; / Treue
wohnt für sich allein; / Liebe kommt euch
rasch entgegen; / Aufgesucht will Treue
sein=--Love ranges about in all thoroughfares;
fidelity dwells by herself alone. Love comes to
meet you with quick footstep; fidelity will be
sought out. _Goethe._
=Liebe ward der Welt von Gott verliehen, /
Um zu Gott die Seele zu erziehen=--Love
was bestowed on the world by God, in order to
train the soul for God. _Rückert._
=Lieber Neid denn Mitleid=--Better envy than
pity. _Ger. Pr._
=Lies are like nitro-glycerine--the best of
judges can't tell where they are going to
burst and scatter confusion.= _Billings._
=Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion= 15
=brings on substance.= _Bacon._
=Lies are the ghosts of truths, the masks of
faces.= _J. Sterling._
=Lies have short legs.= _It. and Ger. Pr._
=Lies hunt in packs.= _Pr._
=Lies may be acted as well as spoken.= _Pr._
=Lies, mere show and sham, and hollow superficiality= 20
=of all kinds, which is at the best a
painted lie, avoid.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Lies need a great deal of killing.= _Pr._
=Lies that are half true are the worst of lies.=
_Pr._
=Life abounds in cares, in thorns, and woes;
many tears flow visibly, although many
more are unseen.= _Antoni Malazeski._
=Life admits not of delays.= _Johnson._
=Life alone can rekindle life.= _Amiel._ 25
=Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of
the boundless ocean of existence where it
comes upon soundings.= _Holmes._
=Life at the greatest and best is but a froward
child, that must be humoured and coaxed
a little till it falls asleep, and then all the
care is over.= _Goldsmith._
=Life belongs to the living, and he who lives
must be prepared for vicissitudes.= _Goethe._
=Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal
concessions.= _Johnson._
=Life every man holds dear; but the brave= 30
=man / Holds honour far more precious dear
than life.= _Troil. and Cress._, v. 3.
=Life everywhere will swallow a man, unless he
rise and try vigorously to swallow it.= _Carlyle._
=Life expresses. A statue has no tongue, and
needs none.= (?)
=Life, full life, / Full-flowered, full-fruited,
reared from homely earth, / Rooted in duty,
... this is the prize / I hold most dear, more
precious than the fruit / Of knowledge or
of love.= _Lewis Morris._
=Life has been compared to a race, but the
allusion still improves, by observing that the
most swift are ever the least manageable,
the most apt to stray from the course.
Great abilities have always been less serviceable
to the possessors than moderate
ones.= _Goldsmith._
=Life has no memory.= _Emerson._ 35
=Life has no pleasure nobler than that of friendship.=
_Johnson._
=Life, however short, is made shorter by waste
of time; and its progress towards happiness,
though naturally slow, is made still slower
by unnecessary labour.= _Johnson._
=Life I leave, as I would leave an inn, rather
than a home; nature having given it us
more as a sort of hostelry to stop at, than
as an abiding dwelling-place.= _Cato in
Cicero._
=Life in itself is neither good nor evil, but the
scene of good or evil, as you make it; and
if you have lived one day, you have lived all
days.= _Montaigne._
=Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has= 40
=its defeats as well as its victories.= _Donn
Piatt._
=Life is a casket, not precious in itself, but
valuable in proportion to what fortune, or
industry, or virtue has placed within it.=
_Landor._
=Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a
tragedy to him who feels.= _Horace Walpole._
=Life is a crucible, into which we are thrown
and tried. The actual weight and value
of a man are expressed in the spiritual
substance of the man; all else is dross.=
_Chapin._
=Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited
by passion. Rest is peculiar to the
spirit.= _Novalis._
=Life is a disease= (_Krankheit_), =sleep a palliative,= 45
=death the radical cure.= _C. J. Weber._
=Life is a dream and death an awakening.=
_Beaumelle._
=Life is a fairy scene: almost all that deserves
the name of enjoyment or pleasure is only
a charming delusion; and in comes repining
age, in all the gravity of hoary wisdom,
and wretchedly chases away the bewitching
phantom.= _Burns._
=Life is a fortress which neither you nor I
know anything about. Why throw obstacles
in the way of its defence? Its own
means are superior to all the apparatus of
your laboratories.= _Emerson._
=Life is a fragment, a moment between two
eternities, influenced by all that has preceded,
and to influence all that follows.=
_Channing._
=Life is a jest, and all things show it; / I
thought so once, but now I know it.= _Gay._
=Life is a kind of sleep; old men sleep longest,
nor begin to wake until they are to die.= _La
Bruyère._
=Life is a little gleam of time between two= 5
=eternities.= _Carlyle._
=Life is a long lesson in humility.= _J. M.
Barrie._
=Life is a moment between two eternities.=
_Channing._
=Life is a plant that grows out of death.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Life is a progress from want to want, not
from enjoyment to enjoyment.= _Johnson._
=Life is a quarantine for Paradise.= _C. J. Weber._ 10
=Life is a rich strain of music suggesting a
realm too fair to be.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Life is a scale of degrees. Between rank and
rank of our great men are wide intervals.=
_Emerson._
=Life is a search after power; and this is an
element with which the world is so saturated--there
is no chink or crevice in which
it is not lodged--that no honest seeking
goes unrewarded.= _Emerson._
=Life is a series of surprises, and would not
be worth taking or keeping if it were not.=
_Emerson._
=Life is a short day, but it is a working day.= 15
_Hannah More._
=Life is a shuttle.= _The Merry Wives_, v. 1.
=Life is a sincerity. In lucid intervals we say,
"Let there be an entrance opened for me
into realities; I have worn the fool's cap
too long."= _Emerson._
=Life is a sleep, love is a dream, and you have
lived if you have loved.= _A. de Musset._
=Life is a stream upon which drift flowers in
spring and blocks of ice in winter.= _Joseph
Roux._
=Life is a succession of lessons which must be= 20
=lived to be understood. All is riddle, and
the key to a riddle is another riddle.= _Emerson._
=Life is a voyage.= _Victor Hugo._
=Life is a warfare.= _Sen._
=Life is a wrestle with the devil, and only the
frivolous think to throw him without taking
off their coats.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Life is act, and not to do is death.= _Lewis
Morris._
=Life is all a variorum; / We regard not how= 25
=it goes; / Let them cant about decorum /
Who have characters to lose. / A fig for
those by law protected! / Liberty's a glorious
feast; / Courts for cowards were
erected, / Churches built to please the
priest.= _Burns, "Jolly Beggars."_
=Life is an earnest business, and no man was
ever made great or good by a diet of broad
grins.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing
the dull ear of a drowsy man.= _King John_,
iii. 4.
=Life is as the current spark on the miner's
wheel of flints; while it spinneth there is
light; stop it, all is darkness.= _Tupper._
=Life is burdensome to us chiefly from the
abuse of it.= _Rousseau._
=Life is but a tissue of habits.= _Amiel._ 30
=Life is but another name for action; and he
who is without opportunity exists, but does
not live.= _G. S. Hillard._
=Life is but thought; so think I will that youth
and I are housemates still.= _S. T. Coleridge._
=Life is freedom--life in the direct ratio of its
amount.... The smallest candle fills a mile
with its rays, and the pupillæ of a man run
out to every star.= _Emerson._
=Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences,
the contributions of men who have perished
to add their point of light to our sky....
These road-makers on every hand enrich
us. We must extend the area of life and
multiply our relations. We are as much
gainers by finding a property in the old earth
as by acquiring a new planet.= _Emerson._
=Life is given us not to enjoy, but to overcome.= 35
_Schopenhauer._
=Life is half spent before we know what life is.=
_Fr. Pr._
=Life is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity
of death.= _Alex. Smith._
=Life is kindled only by life.= _Jean Paul._
=Life is like wine; he who would drink it pure
must not drain it to the dregs.= _Sir W.
Temple._
=Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or= 40
=duties, but of little things, in which smiles
and kindness, and small obligations given
habitually, are what win the heart and
secure comfort.= _Sir H. Davy._
=Life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of
love also.... The hues of sunset make life
great; so the affections make some little
web of cottage and fireside populous, important.=
_Emerson._
=Life is movement.= _Arist._
=Life is no merrymaking.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Life is not as idle ore, / But iron dug from
central gloom, / And heated hot with burning
fears, / And dipt in baths of hissing
tears, / And battered with the shocks of
doom / To shape and use.= _Tennyson._
=Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy.= 45
=Its chief good is for well-mixed people, who
can enjoy what they find without question.=
_Emerson._
=Life is not long, and too much of it must not
pass in idle deliberation how it shall be
spent.= _Johnson._
=Life is not long enough for art, not long
enough for friendship.= _Emerson._
=Life is not so short but there is always time
enough for courtesy.= _Emerson._
=Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly
ills the chief is guilt.= _Schiller._
=Life is not victory, but battle.= _ R. D. Hitchcock._ 50
=Life is poor when its old faiths are gone, /
Poorest when man can trust himself alone.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=Life is probation, and this earth no goal, / But
starting-point of man.= _Browning._
=Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation
for life; a man is not completely born
till he has passed through death.= _Franklin._
=Life is ravelled almost ere we wot, / And with
our vexing / To disentangle it, we make the
knot / But more perplexing, / Embittering
our lot.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Life is real, life is earnest.= _Longfellow._
=Life is sacred; but there is something more= 5
=sacred still: woe to him who does not know
that withal.= _Carlyle._
=Life is so complicated a game, that the devices
of skill are liable to be defeated at every
turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as
the descent of thistle-down.= _George Eliot._
=Life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment
in death.= _Carlyle._
=Life is that which holds matter together.=
_Porphyry._
=Life is the art of being well deceived.= _Hazlitt._
=Life is the best thing we can possibly make of= 10
=it.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to
draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.=
_Lowell._
=Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison,
and its only deliverer is death. What we
call life is a journey to death, and what we
call death is a passport to life.= _Colton._
=Life is the transmigration of a soul / Through
various bodies, various states of being; /
New manners, passions, new pursuits in
each; / In nothing, save in consciousness,
the same.= _Montgomery._
=Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay;
death, of the spirit infinite, divine!= _Young._
=Life is to be considered happy, not in warding= 15
=off evil, but in the acquisition of good: and
this we should seek for by employment of
some kind or by reflection.= _Cic._
=Life is too much for most. So much of age, so
little of youth; living, for the most part, in
the moment, and dating existence by the
memory of its burdens.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Life is too short to waste / In critic peep or
cynic bark, / Quarrel or reprimand; / 'Twill
soon be dark.= _Emerson._
=Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism, and a
sleep within a sleep.= _Emerson._
=Life just the stuff / To try the soul's strength
on, educe the man.= _Browning._
=Life lies before us as a huge quarry before= 20
=the architect; and he deserves not the name
of architect except when, out of this fortuitous
mass, he can combine, with the greatest
economy, fitness and durability, some form
the pattern of which originated in his own
soul.= _Goethe._
=Life lies most open in a closed eye.= _Quarles._
=Life, like a dome of many coloured glass, /
Stains the white radiance of eternity.=
_Shelley._
=Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys,
leading nowhere; the great art is to keep
out of them.= _Bovee._
=Life, like the water of the seas, freshens
only when it ascends towards heaven.= _Jean
Paul._
=Life may as properly be called an art as any= 25
=other, and the great incidents in it are no
more to be considered as mere accidents
than the severest members of a fine statue
or a noble poem.= _Fielding._
=Life must be lived on a higher plane. We
must go up to a higher platform, to which
we are always invited to ascend; there the
whole aspect of things changes.= _Emerson._
=Life only avails, not the having lived.= _Emerson._
=Life outweighs all things, if love lies within
it.= _Goethe._
=Life passes through us; we do not possess it.=
_Amiel._
=Life protracted is protracted woe, / Time= 30
=hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, / And
shuts up all the passages of joy.= _Johnson._
=Life sues the young like a new acquaintance....
To us, who are declined in years, life
appears like an old friend.= _Goldsmith._
=Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must
be always in progression: we must always
purpose to do more or better than in time
past.= _Johnson._
=Life, upon the whole, is much more pleasurable
than painful, otherwise we should not
feel pain so impatiently when it comes.=
_Leigh Hunt._
=Life was intended to be so adjusted that the
body should be the servant of the soul, and
always subordinate to the soul.= _J. G. Holland._
=Life was never a May-game for men; not play= 35
=at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews
sore and the heart sore.= _Carlyle._
=Life was spread as a banquet for pure, noble,
unperverted natures, and may be such to
them, ought to be such to them.= _W. R.
Greg._
=Life wastes itself while we are preparing to
live.= _Emerson._
=Life, whether in this world or any other, is
the sum of our attainment, our experience,
our character. In what other world shall
we be more surely than we are here?=
_Chapin._
=Life with all it yields of joy and woe, / And
hope and fear, / Is just our chance o' the
prize of learning love, / How love might be,
hath been indeed, and is.= _Browning._
=Life without a freend is death wi' a witness.= 40
_Sc. Pr._
=Life without laughing is a dreary blank.=
_Thackeray._
=Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in
it.= _Pr._
=Life's a reckoning we cannot make twice over.=
_George Eliot._
=Life's a tragedy.= _Raleigh._
=Life's a tumble-about thing of ups and downs.= 45
_Disraeli._
=Life's but a day at most.= _Burns._
=Life's but a means unto an end; that end /
Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.=
_Bailey._
=Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, /
That struts and frets his hour upon the
stage, / And then is heard no more! It is
a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury, / Signifying nothing.= _Macb._, v. 5.
=Life's ebbing stream on either side / Shows at
each turn some mould'ring hope or joy, / The
man seems following still the funeral of the
boy.= _Keble._
=Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the
brim.= _Byron._
=Life's life ony gate= (at any rate). _Scott._
=Life's no resting, but a moving; / Let thy life
be deed on deed.= _Goethe._
=Light another's candle, but don't put out your= 5
=own.= _Pr._
=Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks
draw deep.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Light burdens carried far grow heavy.= _Fr.
and Ger. Pr._
=Light cares= (or =griefs=) =speak; great ones are
dumb.= _Sen._
=Light flashes in the gloomiest sky, / And
music in the dullest plain.= _Keble._
=Light gains make heavy purses, because they= 10
=come thick, whereas the great come but now
and then.= _Bacon._
=Light is, as it were, a divine humidity.= _Joubert._
=Light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than the light, because their
deeds were evil.= _St. John._
=Light is coming into the world; men love not
darkness; they do love light.= _Carlyle._
=Light is, in reality, more awful than darkness;
modesty more majestic than strength; and
there is truer sublimity in the sweet joy of a
child, or the sweet virtue of a maiden, than
in the strength of Antæus or the thunder-clouds
of Ætna.= _Ruskin._
=Light is light, though the blind man doesn't= 15
=see it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Light is no less favourable to merit than unfavourable
to imposture.= _H. Home._
=Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all
visible things.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness
for the upright in heart.= _Bible._
=Light is the burden love lays on; / Content
and love brings peace and joy, / What mair
hae queens upon a throne?= _Burns._
=Light is the symbol of truth.= _Lowell._ 20
=Light not your candle at both ends.= _Pr._
=Light, or, failing that, lightning--the world
can take its choice.= _Carlyle._
=Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.=
_Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Light suppers mak' lang life.= _Sc. Pr._
=Light that a man receiveth by counsel from= 25
=another is drier and purer than that which
cometh from his own understanding and
judgment, which is ever in his affections
and customs.= _Bacon._
=Light that makes things seen makes some
things invisible.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Light visits the hearts, as it does the eyes, of
all living.= _Carlyle._
=Light without life is a candle in a tomb; /
Life without love is a garden without bloom.=
_Pr._
=Lightly come, lightly go.= _Pr._
=Lightning and thunder (heaven's artillery) /= 30
=As harbingers before th' Almighty fly: /
Those but proclaim His style, and disappear;
/ The stiller sounds succeed, and
God is there.= _Dryden._
=Like a great poet, Nature produces the
greatest results with the simplest means.
There are simply a sun, flowers, water,
and love.= _Heine._
=Like a large heart overflowing with an impotent
and vague love, the universe is ceaselessly
in the agony of transformation.= _Renan._
=Like a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.= _Pr._
=Like a man do all things, not sneakingly.=
_George Herbert._
=Like a morning dream, life becomes more and= 35
=more bright the longer we live, and the
reason of everything appears more clear.=
_Jean Paul._
=Like a tailor's needle, say, "I go through."=
_Pr._
=Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our
hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots,
and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence
of which all other fires should go out.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=Like angels' visits, few and far between.=
_Campbell, from Blair._
=Like angels' visits, short and bright; / Mortality's
too weak to bear them long.= _J.
Norris._
=Like author, like book.= _Pr._ 40
=Like blude, like gude, like age, mak' the happy
marriage.= _Sc. Pr._
=Like coalesces in this world with unlike. The
strong and the weak, the contemplative and
the active, bind themselves together.= _Fr.
Robertson._
=Like cures like.= _Pr._
=Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or
squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still
climb and climb, with great labour and incessant
anxiety, but never reach the top.=
_Burton._
=Like doth quit like, and measure still for= 45
=measure.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Like draws to like, the world over.= _Pr._
=Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming,
and it becomes its full self when its
sounds and laws are used by intelligent man
for the production of harmony, and so made
the vehicle of emotion and thought.= _Theodore
T. Munger._
=Like father, like son.= _Pr._
=Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, /
Now green in youth, now withering on the
ground; / Another race the following spring
supplies; / They fall successive, and successive
rise.= _Pope's Homer._
=Like master, like man.= _Pr._ 50
=Like mighty rivers, with resistless force, / The
passions rage, obstructed in their course, /
Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore,
/ And drown those virtues which they
fed before.= _Pope._
=Like mistress, like maid.= _Pr._
=Like mother, like daughter.= _Pr._
=Like Niobe, all tears.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless= 55
=its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the
sun.= _Carlyle._
=Like our shadows / Our wishes lengthen as
our sun declines.= _Young._
=Like patience on a monument, / Smiling at
grief.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=Like priest, like people.= _Pr._
=Like prince, like people.= _Pr._
=Like Scotsmen, aye wise ahint the hand=
(after the event). _Pr._
=Like talks best with like, laughs best with
like, works best with like, and enjoys best
with like; and it cannot help it.= _J. G. Holland._
=Like the air, the water, and everything else in= 5
=the world, the heart too rises the higher the
warmer it becomes.= _Cötvös._
=Like the dog in the manger, he will neither
eat himself nor let the horse eat.= _Pr._
=Like the hand which ends a dream, / Death,
with the might of his sunbeam, / Touches
the flesh and the soul awakes.= _Browning._
=Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.= _G.
Colman._
=Likely tumbles in the fire, / When unlikely
rises higher.= _Pr._
=Limæ labor et mora=--The labour and tediousness 10
of polishing as with a file. _Hor._
=Limit your wants by your wealth.= _Pr._
=Limitations refine as the soul purifies, but the
ring of necessity is always perched at the
top.= _Emerson._
=Limiting of one's life always conduces to happiness.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Lingua mali loquax malæ mentis est indicium=--An
evil tongue is the proof of an evil mind.
_Pub. Syr._
=Lingua mali pars pessima servi=--His tongue is 15
the worst part of a bad servant. _Juv._
=Lingua melior, sed frigida bello / Dextera=--Excels
in speech, but of a right hand slow to
war. _Virg._
=Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum, / Ferrea
vox=--It has a hundred tongues, a hundred
mouths, a voice of iron. _Virg., of Rumour._
=Linguam compescere, virtus non minima est=--To
restrain the tongue is not the least of the
virtues.
=Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens / Uxor,
neque harum, quas colis, arborum, / Te,
præter invisas cupressos, / Ulla brevem dominum
sequetur=--Your estate, your home, and
your pleasing wife must be left, and of these
trees which you are rearing, not one shall
follow you, their short-lived owner, except the
hateful cypresses. _Hor._
=Lions are not frightened by cats.= _Pr._ 20
=Lions' skins are not to be had cheap.= _Pr._
=Lippen to= (trust) =me, but look to yoursel'.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Lips become compressed and drawn with
anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are
quenched of their fires by many tears.= _S.
Lover._
=Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door.=
_Delaune._
=Lis litem generat=--Strife genders strife. _Pr._ 25
=List geht über Gewalt-=-Cunning overcomes
strength. _Ger. Pr._
=List his discourse of war, and you shall hear /
A fearful battle render'd you in music; / Turn
him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian
Knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his
garter.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.
=Listen at a hole, and ye'll hear news o' yoursel'.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Listeners never hear good of themselves.= _Sp.
Pr._
=Lite pendente=--During the lawsuit. 30
=Litem parit lis, noxa item noxam parit=--Strife
begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury.
_Pr._
=Litera canina=--The canine letter (the letter R).
=Litera occidit, spiritus autem vivificat=--The
letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. _Vulgate._
=Litera scripta manet, verbum ut inane perit=--Written
testimony remains, but oral perishes.
=Literæ Bellerophontis=--A Bellerophon's letter, 35
_i.e._, a letter requesting that the bearer should be
dealt with in some summary way for an offence.
=Literæ humaniores=--Polite literature; arts in a
university.
=Literary history is the great morgue where all
seek the dead ones whom they love, and to
whom they are related.= _Heine._
=Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood.=
_Carlyle._
=Literature, as a field for glory, is an arena
where a tomb may be more easily found than
laurels; as a means of support, it is the very
chance of chances.= _H. Giles._
=Literature consists of all the books--and they= 40
=are not many--where moral truth and human
passion are touched with a certain largeness,
sanity, and attraction of form.= _John Morley._
=Literature draws its sap from the deep soil of
human nature's common and everlasting
sympathies.= _Lowell._
=Literature happens to be the only occupation
in which wages are not given in proportion
to the goodness of the work done.= _Froude._
=Literature has her quacks no less than medicine:
those who have erudition without
genius, and those who have volubility without
depth.= _Colton._
=Literature has other aims than that of harmlessly
amusing indolent, languid men.= _Carlyle._
=Literature is a fragment of a fragment, and= 45
=of this but little is extant.= _Goethe._
=Literature is a great staff, but a sorry crutch.=
_Scott._
=Literature is fast becoming all in all to us--our
church, our senate, our whole social
constitution.= _Carlyle._
=Literature is representative of intellect, which
is progressive; government is representative
of order, which is stationary.= _Buckle._
=Literature is so common a luxury that the
age has grown fastidious.= _Tuckerman._
=Literature is the thought of thinking souls.= 50
_Carlyle._
=Literature, like virtue, is its own reward.=
_Chesterfield._
=Literature positively has other aims than this
of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps
this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest
or true aim.= _Carlyle._
=Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms
the grand line of demarcation between the
human and the animal kingdoms.= _W. Godwin._
=Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when
ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine
duel with the whole world of darkness that
lies without one and within one;--rather a
hard fight at times.= _Carlyle._
=Litteræ non erubescunt=--A letter does not
blush. _Cic._
=Little and often fills the purse.= _Pr._
=Little bantams are great at crowing.= _Pr._
=Little boats must keep near shore.= _Pr._
=Little bodies have great souls.= _Pr._ 5
=Little by little the little bird builds its nest.=
_Pr._
=Little children, little sorrows; big children,
great sorrows.= _Pr._
=Little chips light great fires.= _Pr._
=Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, /
Make our earth an Eden like the heaven
above.= _F. S. Osgood._
=Little dew-drops of celestial melody.= _Carlyle,_ 10
_of Burns' songs._
=Little do men perceive what solitude is, and
how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not
company, and faces are but a gallery of
pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.= _Bacon._
=Little drops of rain pierce the hard marble.=
_Lily._
=Little drops of water, little grains of sand, /
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant
land. / Thus the little minutes, humble
though they be, / Make the mighty ages
of eternity.= _F. S. Osgood._
=Little enemies and little wounds must not be
despised.= _Pr._
=Little fishes should not spout like whales.= _Pr._ 15
=Little flower--if I could understand / What
you are, root and all, and all in all, / I should
know what God and man is.= _Tennyson._
=Little folks like to talk about great folks.= _Pr._
=Little gear, less care.= _Sc. Pr._
=Little griefs are loud, great sorrows are
silent.= _Pr._
=Little is done when every man is master.= _Pr._ 20
=Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread,
and never bring disgust; and great
ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then
with satiety.= _Jean Paul._
=Little kingdom is great household, and great
household little kingdom.= _Bacon._
=Little-minded people's thoughts move in such
small circles that five minutes' conversation
gives you an arc long enough to determine
their whole curve.= _Holmes._
=Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune,
but great minds rise above it.=
_Washington Irving._
=Little minds are too much wounded by little= 25
=things; great minds see all, and are not
even hurt.= _La Roche._
=Little minds, like weak liquors, are soonest
soured.= _Pr._
=Little odds between a feast and a fu' wame=
(stomach). _Sc. Pr._
=Little of this great world can I speak, / More
than pertains to feats of broil and battle; /
And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause /
In speaking for myself. Yet by your gracious
patience, / I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver /
Of my whole course of love.= _Othello_,
i. 3.
=Little ones are taught to be proud of their
clothes before they can put them on.= _Locke._
=Little opportunities should be improved.= 30
_Fenélon._
=Little pigeons can carry great messages.= _Pr._
=Little pigs eat great potatoes.= _Pr._
=Little pitchers have long ears=, _i.e._, children
have. _Pr._
=Little pot, / Don't get hot / On the spot.= _Pr._
=Little pots soon boil over.= _Ger. Pr._ 35
=Little souls on little shifts rely.= _Dryden._
=Little strokes fell great oaks.= _Pr._
=Little thieves have iron chains and great
thieves gold ones.= _Dut. Pr._
=Little things blame not: Grace may on them
wait. / Cupid is little; but his godhead's
great.= _Anon._
=Little things please little minds.= _Pr._ 40
=Little troubles are great to little people.= _Pr._
=Little waves with their soft white hands efface
the footprints in the sands.= _Longfellow._
=Little wealth, little sorrow.= _Pr._
=Little wit in the head makes much work for
the feet.= _Pr._
=Little wrongs done to others are great wrongs= 45
=done to ourselves.= _Pr._
=Littore quot conchæ, tot sunt in amore dolores=--There
are as many pangs in love as shells on
the sea-shore. _Ovid._
=Littus ama, altum alii teneant=--Hug thou the
shore, let others stand out to sea. _Virg._
=Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great
deal of living to get a little deal of learning.=
_Ruskin._
=Live and let live.= _Pr._
=Live as long as you may, the first twenty= 50
=years are the longest half of your life.=
_Southey._
=Live for to-day! to-morrow's light, / Tomorrow's
cares shall bring to sight; / Go
sleep, like closing flowers, at night, / And
Heaven thy morn will bless.= _Keble._
=Live in to-day, but not for to-day.= _Pr._
=Live, live to-day; to-morrow never yet / On
any human being rose or set.= _Marsden._
=Live not for yourself alone.= _Pr._
=Live not to eat, but eat to live.= _Pr._ 55
=Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow
round / Of Duty; live, expend yourselves,
and make / The orb of Being wheel onward
steadfastly / Upon its path--the Lord of
Life alone / Knows to what goal of Good;
work on, live on.= _Lewis Morris._
=Live on what you have; live if you can on
less; do not borrow either for vanity or
pleasure--the vanity will end in shame, and
the pleasure in regret.= _Johnson._
=Live only a moment at a time.= _Pr._
=Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the
grape, / And ivy berry, choose; and still
depart / From death to death thro' life and
life, and find / Nearer and ever nearer Him,
who wrought / Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite,
/ But this main miracle, that thou
art thou, / With power on thine own act and
on the world.= _Tennyson._
=Live to learn and learn to live.= _Pr._ 60
=Live upon trust, / And pay double you must.=
_Pr._
=Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon
nor live too long.= _Lady R. Russel._
=Live we how we can, yet die we must.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, v. 2.
=Live with a singer if you would learn to sing.= _Pr._
=Live with thy century, but be not its creature;
produce for thy contemporaries, however,
what they need, not what they applaud.=
_Schiller._
=Live with your friend as if he might become
your enemy.= _Pr._
=Lively feeling of situations, and power to
express them, make the poet.= _Goethe._
=Lives of great men all remind us, / We can= 5
=make our lives sublime; / And departing
leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of
time.= _Longfellow._
=Living religion grows not by the doctrines,
but by the narratives of the Bible.= _Jean
Paul._
=Living well is the best revenge.= _Pr._
=Lo ageno siempre pia por su dueño=--What is
another's always chirps for its master. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of
the world.= _Jesus to His disciples._
=Lo que hace el loco á la derreria, hace el sabio= 10
=á la primeria=--What the fool does at length the
wise man does at the beginning. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo que no acaece en un año, acaece en un
rato=--A thing that may not happen in a year
may happen in two minutes. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind /
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the
wind; / His soul proud science never taught
to stray / Far as the solar walk or milky
way; / Yet simple nature to his hope
has given, / Behind the cloud-topt hills, a
humbler heaven.= _Pope._
=Loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._,
i. 3.
=Loans and debts make worries and frets.= _Pr._
=Loans should come laughing home.= _Pr._ 15
=Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.=
_Shakespeare._
=Loaves put awry in the oven come out awry.=
_Pr._
=Loci communes=--Topics.
=Lock the stable before you lose the steed.=
_Pr._
=Locking the stable door when the steed is= 20
=stolen.= _Pr._
=Loco citato=--In the place quoted.
=Locum tenens=--A deputy or substitute.
=Locus classicus=--A classical passage.
=Locus est et pluribus umbris=--There is room
for more introductions. _Hor._
=Locus in quo=--The place in which; the place previously 25
occupied.
=Locus penitentiæ=--Place for repentance.
=Locus sigili=--The place for the seal; pointed out
in documents by the letters L.S.
=Locus standi=--Standing in a case; position in an
argument.
=Lofty mountains are full of springs; great
hearts are full of tears.= _Joseph Roux._
=Logic works; metaphysic contemplates.= _Joubert._ 30
=Loin de la cour, loin du souci=--Far from court,
far from care. _Fr. Pr._
=Long customs are not easily broken; he that
attempts to change the course of his own
life very often labours in vain.= _Johnson._
=Long experience made him sage.= _Gay._
=Long lent is not given.= _Pr._
=Long talk makes short work.= _Pr._ 35
=Long talking begets short hearing, for people
go away.= _Jean Paul._
=Longa est injuria, longæ / Ambages=--Long is
the story of her wrongs, tedious the details.
_Virg._
=Longa mora est, quantum noxæ sit ubique repertum
/ Enumerare: minor fuit ipsa infamia
vero=--It would take long to enumerate how great
an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated;
even the report itself came short of the truth.
_Ovid._
=Longe aberrat scopo=--He is wide of the mark;
has gone quite out of his sphere.
=Longe absit=--Far be it from me; God forbid. 40
=Longe mea discrepat istis / Et vox et ratio=--Both
my language and my sentiments differ
widely from theirs. _Hor._
=Longo sed proximus intervallo=--Next, with a
long interval between. _Virg._
=Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax
per exempla=--The road to learning by precept
is long, by example short and effectual. _Sen._
=Look above you, and then look about you.= _Pr._
=Look, as I blow this feather from my face, / And= 45
=as the air blows it to me again / ... Commanded
always by the greater gust; / Such
is the lightness of you common men.= 3 _Henry
VI._, iii. 1.
=Look at home, father priest, mother priest;
your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility
than mine can be. Your priesthood
is from God's own hands.= _Ward Beecher._
=Look at paintings and fightings from a distance.=
_Pr._
=Look at the bright side of a failure as well as
the dark.= _Anon._
=Look at your own corn in May, / And you'll
come weeping away.= _Pr._
=Look before you leap.= _Pr._ 50
=Look before you, or you'll have to look behind
you.= _Pr._
=Look for squalls, but don't make them.= _Pr._
=Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid
with patines of bright gold; / There's not
the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But
in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring
to the young-eyed cherubims.= _Mer. of
Ven._, v. 1.
=Look how we can, or sad or merrily, / Interpretation
will misquote our looks.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, v. 2.
=Look in the glass when you with anger glow, /= 55
=And you'll confess you scarce yourself would
know.= _Ovid._
=Look in thy heart and write.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Look not a gift horse in the mouth.= _Pr._
=Look not mournfully into the past--it comes
not back again; wisely improve the present--it
is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy
future without fear and with a manly heart.=
_Longfellow._
=Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. /
Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span /
Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe. / If
thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If
well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.=
_George Herbert._
=Look not to what is wanting in any one;
consider that rather which still remains to
him.= _Goethe._
=Look out for a people entirely destitute of religion.
If you find them at all, be assured
that they are but few degrees removed from
brutes.= _Hume._
=Look round the habitable world, how few /
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.=
_Dryden, after Juvenal._
=Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks
o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.=
_Ham._, i. 1.
=Look through a keyhole, and your eye will be= 5
=sore.= _Pr._
=Look to the players; ... / They are the abstract
and brief chroniclers of the times.=
_Ham._, ii. 2.
=Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there.=
_George Herbert._
=Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity.=
_Sir P. Sidney._
=Look unto those they call unfortunate; / And,
closer viewed, you'll find they are unwise.=
_Young._
=Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole= 10
=of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy
the present without wishing, through haste,
to spring on to another.= _Jean Paul._
=Look within. Within is the fountain of good,
and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever
dig.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=Lookers-on see more than the players.= _Pr._
=Looking round on the noisy inanity of the
world, words with little meaning, actions
with little worth, one loves to reflect on the
great empire of silence. The noble silent
men, scattered here and there each in his
department, silently thinking, silently working;
whom no morning newspaper makes
mention of.= _Carlyle._
=Looking where others looked, and conversing
with the same things, we catch the charm
which lured them.= _Emerson._
=Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth.= 15
_Shakespeare._
=Loop'd and window'd raggedness.= _Lear_,
iii. 4.
=Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes
the heart.= _Pr._
=Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut docti=--We
should speak as the populace, think as the
learned. _Coke._
=Lord, help me through this warld o' care, / I'm
weary sick o't late and air; / Not but I hae
a richer share / Than mony ithers; / But
why should ae man better fare, / And a'
men brithers?= _Burns._
=Lord, keep my memory green!= _Dickens._ 20
=Lord of himself, that heritage of woe.= _Byron._
=Lord of himself, though not of lands; having
nothing yet hath all.= _Sir Henry Wotton_ (?).
=Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, / Thy
steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor
heed the storm that howls along the sky.=
_Smollett._
=Lord of thy presence and no land beside.=
_King John_, i. 1.
=Lord, we know what we are, but know not= 25
=what we may be.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter
une expression simple, c'est la marque pour
la rejeter=--When a thought is too weak to
bear a simple expression, it is a sign that it
deserves rejection. _Vauvenargues._
=Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness,
and then, / Comes the wreck of all
you hope for in the wreck of noble men.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=Lose thy fun rather than thy friend.= _Pr._
=Losing the bundles gathering the wisps.=
_Gael. Pr._
=Losses are comparative, only imagination= 30
=makes them of any moment.= _Pascal._
=Lost time is never found again.= _Pr._
=Lotis manibus=--With clean-washen hands.
=Loud clamour is always more or less insane.=
_Carlyle._
=Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who
are only pleased with silly things; for true
wit or good sense never excited a laugh
since the creation of the world.= _Chesterfield._
=Loudness is a foe to melody.= _Pr._ 35
=Louer les princes des vertus qu'ils n'ont pas,
c'est leur dire impunément des injures=--To
praise princes for virtues which they do not
possess, is to insult them with impunity. _La
Roche._
=Louis ne sut qu'aimer, pardonner et mourir; /
Il aurait su régner s'il avait su punir=--Louis
(XVI.) knew only how to love, pardon, and die;
had he known how to punish, he would have
known how to reign. _Tilly._
=Love abounds in honey and poison.= _Sp. Pr._
=Love accomplishes all things.= _Petrarch._
=Love all, trust a few, / Do wrong to none; be= 40
=able for thine enemy / Rather in power than
use; and keep thy friend / Under thy own
life's key; be checked for silence, / But
never tax'd for speech.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=Love and death are the two great hinges on
which all human sympathies turn.= _B. R.
Haydon._
=Love and friendship exclude each other.= _Du
Cœur._
=Love and gratitude are seldom found in the
same breast without impairing each other
... we cannot command both together.=
_Goldsmith._
=Love and light winna hide.= _Sc. Pr._
=Love and lordship like not fellowship.= _Pr._ 45
=Love and poverty are hard to hide.= _Pr._
=Love and pride stock Bedlam.= _Pr._
=Love and religion are both stronger than
friendship.= _Disraeli._
=Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of
tea.= _Fielding._
=Love and the Soul, working together, might= 50
=go on producing Venuses without end, each
different, and all beautiful; but divorced
and separated, they may continue producing
indeed, yet no longer any being, or even
thing, truly godlike.= _Ed._
=Love and trust are the only mother-milk of
any man's soul.= _Ruskin._
=Love, and you shall be loved. All love is
mathematically just, as much as the two
sides of an algebraic equation.= _Emerson._
=Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.=
_Pr._
=Love at two-and-twenty is a terribly intoxicating
draft.= _Ruffini._
=Love betters what is best, / Even here below,
but more in heaven above.= _Wordsworth._
=Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship
comes like dawning moonlight. Love
will obtain and possess; friendship makes
sacrifices but asks nothing.= _Geibel._
=Love can do much, but duty still more.=
_Goethe._
=Love can hope where reason would despair.= 5
_Lyttleton._
=Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only
price is love.= _Pr._
=Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its
bosom, without first suffering for it.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Love concedes in a moment what we can
hardly attain by effort after years of toil.=
_Goethe._
=Love converts the hut into a palace of gold.=
_Hölty._
=Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when= 10
=it has most reason to be gay, sighs are
the signs of its deepest joy, and silence
the expression of its yearning tenderness.=
_Bovee._
=Love delights to bring her best, / And where
love is, that offering evermore is blest.=
_Keble._
=Love dies by satiety, and forgetfulness inters
it.= _Du Cœur._
=Love divine, all love excelling, / Joy of heaven
to earth come down.= _Toplady._
=Love does much, but money does more.= _Pr._
=Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's= 15
=door / Pours in the morning worshipper no
more.= _Johnson._
=Love ever flows downward.= _Quoted by Hare._
=Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, /
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment
flies.= _Pope._
=Love, friendship, charity are subjects all / To
envious and calumniating time.= _Troil. and
Cress._, iii. 3.
=Love furthers knowledge.= _Pr._
=Love gives itself, and is not bought.= _Longfellow._ 20
=Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from
their books; / But love from love, toward
school with heavy looks.= _Rom. and Jul._,
ii. 2.
=Love has made its best interpreter a sigh.=
_Byron._
=Love has no age, as it is always renewing
itself.= _Pascal._
=Love has the tendency of pressing together
all the lights, all the rays emitted from the
beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy,
into one focus, and making of them one
radiant sun without spots.= _Goethe._
=Love hath a large mantle.= _Pr._ 25
=Love hides ugliness.= _Gael. Pr._
=Love in the heart is better than honey in the
mouth.= _Pr._
=Love is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant--a
harpy that devours everything.= _Swift._
=Love is a boy by poets spoiled.= _S. Butler._
=Love is a debt which inclination always pays,= 30
=obligation never.= _Pascal._
=Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is
no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so
tempted, and he had an excellent strength;
yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a
very good wit.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.
=Love is a personal debt.= _George Herbert._
=Love is a reality which is born in the fairy
region of romance.= _Talleyrand._
=Love is a secondary passion in those who love
most, a primary in those who love least. He
who is inspired by it in a high degree is inspired
by honour in a higher; it never reaches
its plenitude of growth and perfection but in
the most exalted minds.= _Landor._
=Love is a secret no man knows / Till it within= 35
=his bosom glows.= _Pr._
=Love is a sleep; love is a dream; and you have
lived if you have loved.= _Alfred De Musset._
=Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; /
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers'
eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with
lovers' tears: / What is it else? A madness
most discreet, / A choking gall, and a preserving
sweet.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 1.
=Love is a spirit all compact of fire; / Not gross
to sink, but light and will aspire.= _Shakespeare._
=Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol
which itself hath made.= _Sir T. Overbury._
=Love is a sweet idolatry, enslaving all the soul.= 40
_Tupper._
=Love is an exotic of the most delicate constitution.=
_Goldsmith._
=Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless
image; not one painted on paper, but the
living essence of the divine nature, which
beams full of all goodness.= _Luther._
=Love is as warm among cottars as courtiers.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Love is as warm in fustian as in velvet.= _Pr._
=Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty= 45
=follies that themselves commit.= _Mer. of
Ven._, ii. 6.
=Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn
with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes,
because he does not see what he does not
like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the
universe is Love for finding what he seeks,
and only that.= _Emerson._
=Love is deemed the tenderest= (_zärteste_) =of our
affections, as even the blind and the deaf
know; but I know, what few believe, that
true friendship is more tender still.= _Platen._
=Love is eternally awake, never tired with
labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor
discouraged by fear.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Love is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever
wearing into life's dull warp bright gorgeous
flowers and scenes Arcadian.= _Longfellow._
=Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as= 50
=fire is of light; and works also more in the
manner of fire.= _Carlyle._
=Love is ever the gift, the sacrifice of self.=
_Canon Liddon._
=Love is full of unbefitting strains; / All wanton
as a child, skipping and vain; / Formed by
the eye, and therefore, like the eye, / Full
of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms, /
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll / To
every varied object in his glance.= _Love's
L. Lost_, v. 2.
=Love is incompatible with fear.= _Pub. Syr._
=Love is indestructible, / Its holy flame for ever
burneth; / From heaven it came, to heaven
returneth.= _Southey._
=Love is just another name for the inscrutable
presence by which the soul is connected with
humanity.= _Simms._
=Love is kin to duty.= _Lewis Morris._
=Love is life's end--an end, but never ending....= 5
=Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but
ever spending.... Love's life's reward,
rewarded in rewarding.= _Spenser._
=Love is like the painter, who, being to draw
the picture of a friend having a blemish in
one eye, would picture only the other side
of his face.= _South._
=Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.=
_Scott._
=Love is merely a madness.= _As You Like It_,
iii. 2.
=Love is mightier than indignation.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Love is more pleasing than marriage, because= 10
=romances are more amusing than history.=
_Chamfort._
=Love is neither bought nor sold.= _Pr._
=Love is never lasting which flames before it
burns.= _Feltham._
=Love is not a fire which can be confined within
the breast; everything betrays it; and its
fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the
more.= _Racine._
=Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it
many points in common therewith ... I call
it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the
Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning
again may be either true or false,
either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or
Insanity.= _Carlyle._
=Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which= 15
=shows us what is most worthy of regard.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration
finds.= _Shakespeare._
=Love is not to be reason'd down or lost / In
high ambition or a thirst of greatness.= _Addison._
=Love is old, old as eternity, but not outworn;
with each new being born or to be born.=
_Byron._
=Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and
reward.= _Emerson._
=Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men,= 20
=therefore they speak much of it; but one
syllable of woman's speech can dissolve
more of it than a man's heart can hold.=
_Holmes._
=Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot
quench love, neither can the floods drown
it.= _Bible._
=Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession.=
_Emerson._
=Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle,
strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering,
manly, and never seeking her own.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Love is the bond which never corrodes.= _Dr.
Parker._
=Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness= 25
=of the busy.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of
the gods, and the chiefest author and giver
of virtue in life and happiness after death.=
_Plato._
=Love is the greatest thing that God can give
us, and it is the greatest we can give God.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Love is the joining of two souls on their way
to God.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Love is the master-key that opens every ward
of the heart of man.= _J. H. Evans._
=Love is the most easy and agreeable, and= 30
=gratitude the most humiliating, affection of
the mind.= _Goldsmith._
=Love is the mother of love.= _Pr._
=Love is the occupation of an idle man, the
amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck
of a sovereign.= _Napoleon._
=Love is the only ink which does not fade.= _Dr.
Parker._
=Love is the only memory which strengthens
with time.= _Dr. Parker._
=Love is vanity, / Selfish in its beginning as its= 35
=end.= _Byron._
=Love knows nothing of labour.= _It. Pr._
=Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for
food, thou may'st for physic.= _Wm. Penn._
=Love laughs at locksmiths.= _Pr._
=Love lessens the woman's refinement and
strengthens the man's.= _Jean Paul._
=Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;= 40
=/ Love laps his wings on either side
the heart / ... Absorbing all the incense of
sweet thoughts, / So that they pass not to
the shrine of sound.= _Tennyson._
=Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow.=
_Pr._
=Love like a shadow flies when substance love
pursues; / Pursuing that that flies, and flying
what pursues.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 2.
=Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual
motion, and ceases to exist as soon as
it ceases to hope or fear.= _La Roche._
=Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than
hunger.= _Jean Paul._
=Love likes not shallow mirth.= _Dr. Walter_ 45
_Smith._
=Love looks not with the eyes, but with the
mind; / And therefore is wing'd Cupid
painted blind.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, i. 1.
=Love makes labour light.= _J. G. Holland._
=Love makes obedience lighter than liberty.=
_W. R. Alger._
=Love makes time pass away, and time makes
love pass away.= _Fr. Pr._
=Love me little, love me long, / Is the burden of= 50
=my song; / Love that is too hot and strong /
Burneth soon to waste; / Still I would not
have thee cold, / Not too backward or too
bold; / Love that lasteth till 'tis old / Fadeth
not in haste.= _Old Ballad._
=Love me, love my dog.= _Pr._
=Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and
damps each joy he does not yield.= _Lady
Dacre._
=Love moderately; long love doth so; / Too
swift arrives as tardy as too slow.= _Rom.
and Jul._, ii. 6.
=Love must be as much a light as a flame.=
_Thoreau._
=Love must be taken by stratagem, not by
open force.= _Goldsmith._
=Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives,
like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
and trembles then lest it has done too little.=
_Hannah More._
=Love not pleasure; love God. This is the
everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is
solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it
is well with him.= _Carlyle._
=Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.=
_Bible._
=Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way; /= 5
=God gave them to thee under lock and key.=
_George Herbert._
=Love of gain never made a painter, but it has
marred many.= _W. Allston._
=Love of glory can only create a great hero;
contempt of it creates a great man.= _Talleyrand._
=Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment;
and without love men cannot endure
to be together.= _Carlyle._
=Love of power, merely to make flunkeys come
and go for you, is a love, I should think, which
enters only into the minds of persons in a
very infantine state.= _Carlyle._
=Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere= 10
=to find and value what is good.=
_Goethe._
=Love on his lips and hatred in his heart: /
His motto--constancy, his creed--to part.=
_Byron._
=Love one human being with warmth and
purity, and thou wilt love the world. The
heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like
the sun in its course. From the drop on the
rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror,
which he fills and brightens.= _Jean Paul._
=Love one time layeth burdens, another time
giveth wings.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Love ought to raise a low heart and not
humble a high one.= _Ariosto._
=Love ower het= (hot) =soon cools.= _Sc. Pr._ 15
=Love prefers twilight to daylight.= _Holmes._
=Love reckons hours for months, and days for
years; and every little absence is an age.=
_Dryden._
=Love requires not so much proofs as expressions
of love.= _Jean Paul._
=Love rules his kingdom without a sword.= _Pr._
=Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, /= 20
=And men below and saints above; / For
love is heaven, and heaven is love.= _Scott._
=Love rules without a sword and binds without
a cord.= _Pr._
=Love rules without law.= _It. Pr._
=Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no
ear hears; and what never rose in the heart
of man love prepares for its object.= _Lavater._
=Love seldom haunts the breast where learning
lies, / And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.=
_Pope._
=Love should have some rest and pleasure in= 25
=himself, / Not ever be too curious for a
boon, / Too prurient for a proof against the
grain / Of him ye say ye love.= _Tennyson._
=Love should not be all on one side.= _Pr._
=Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities
of the human race.= _Helps._
=Love silence rather than speech in these tragic
days, when for very speaking the voice of
man has fallen inarticulate to man.= _Carlyle._
=Love sought is good, but given unsought is
better.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1.
=Love strikes one hour--love. Those never= 30
=loved / Who dream that they loved once.=
_Elizabeth B. Browning._
=Love that can flow, and can admit increase, /
Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less.=
_Suckling._
=Love the good and forgive the bad.= _Gael. Pr._
=Love, the last relay and ultimate outpost of
eternity.= _D. G. Rossetti._
=Love the sense of right and wrong confounds; /
Strong love and proud ambition have no
bounds.= _Dryden._
=Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude.= 35
_Sc. Pr._
=Love thyself, and many will hate thee.= _Anon._
=Love to a yielding heart is a king, but to a
resisting is a tyrant.= _Sidney._
=Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all
times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is
not the aim of any life. Do not think that your
life means a mere searching in gutters for
fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In
our life there is no meaning at all except the
work we have done.= _Carlyle._
=Love too late can never glow.= _Keble._
=Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all= 40
=the chords with might; / Smote the chord of
Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of
sight.= _Tennyson._
=Love-verses, writ without any real passion,
are the most nauseous of all conceits.= _Shenstone._
=Love waits for love, though the sun be set, /
And the stars come out, the dews are wet, /
And the night-winds moan.= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a
tear!= _Tupper._
=Love, when founded in the heart, will show
itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies
of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition
of the passion only argues little understanding
or great insincerity.= _Goldsmith._
=Love which hath ends will have an end.= 45
_Dryden._
=Love, which is only an episode in the life of
a man, is the entire history of a woman's
life.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Love, which is the essence of God, is not for
levity, but for the total worth of man.= _Emerson._
=Love will creep where it cannot go.= _Pr._
=Love will find its way / Through paths where
wolves would fear to prey.= _Byron._
=Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope,= 50
=but not altogether without it.= _Scott._
=Love with men is not a sentiment, but an
idea.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=Love without return is like a question without
an answer.= _Ger. Pr._
=Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore
love is the fulfilling of the law.= _St. Paul._
=Love works a different way in different minds, /
The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds.=
_Dryden._
=Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest.=
_Keble._
=Love your enemies, do good to them that
hate you, bless them that curse you, and
pray for them which despitefully use you
and persecute you.= _Jesus._
=Love your neighbour, but don't tear down the
fence.= _Ger. Pr._
=Love yourself, and in that love / Not unconsidered
leave your honour.= _Hen. VIII._,
i. 2.
=Love's fire, if it once go out, is hard to kindle.= 5
_Pr._
=Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten
times faster glide than the sun's beams /
Driving back shadows over lowering hills.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 5.
=Love's not love / When it is mingled with
regards that stand / Aloof from the entire
point.= _Lear_, i. 1.
=Love's of a strangely open simple kind, / And
thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind.=
_Cowley._
=Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is
when love's honey has a dash of gall.= _Herrick._
=Love's plant must be watered with tears and= 10
=tended with care.= _Dan. Pr._
=Love's reasons without reason.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the
full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and
resorts to the pantomime of sighs and
glances.= _Bovee._
=Love's the noblest frailty of the mind.= _Dryden._
=Love's true function in the world is as the
regenerator and restorer of social life, the
reconciler and uniter of living men.= _Ed._
=Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar= 15
=as a king.= _Decker._
=Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of
laborious indigence than the fawning simper
of thriving adulation.= _Goldsmith._
=Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness;
it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in
a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker,
is a spiritual force.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Loveliness / Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
/ But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the
most.= _Thomson._
=Lovers and madmen have such seething
brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
/ More than cool reason ever comprehends.=
_Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.
=Lovers are as punctual as the sun.= _Goethe._ 20
=Lovers are never tired of each other; they
always speak of themselves.= _La Roche._
=Lovers break not hours, / Unless it be to come
before their time; / So much they spur their
expedition.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 1.
=Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs.= _Pr._
=Lovers= (_Verliebte_) =see only each other in the
world, but they forget that the world sees
them.= _Platen._
=Lovers' time runs faster than the clock.= 25
_Pr._
=Loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with
arrows, some with traps.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.
=Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and
he who goes the lowest builds the safest.=
_Bailey._
=Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / Whereto
the climber-upward turns his face; / But
when he once attains the upmost round, /
He then unto the ladder turns his back, /
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
/ By which he did ascend.= _Jul. Cæs._,
ii. 1.
=Loyal à la mort=--Loyal to death. _M._
=Loyal en tout=--Loyal in all. _M._ 30
=Loyal je serai durant ma vie=--I will be loyal
during my life. _M._
=Loyauté m'oblige=--Loyalty binds me. _M._
=Loyauté n'a honte=--Loyalty feels no shame.
_M._
=Lubrici sunt fortunæ gressus=--The footsteps of
fortune are slippery.
=Lubricum linguæ non facile in pœnam est= 35
=trahendum=--A slip of the tongue ought not to
be rashly punished. _L._
[Greek: Lychnou arthentos, gynê pasa hê autê]--When
the candle is taken away, every woman is alike.
_Gr. Pr._
=Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up.
Labour, with keen eyes and strong will,
will turn up something. Luck relies on
chance, labour on character.= _Cobden._
=Luck is everything in promotion.= _Cervantes._
=Luck is the idol of the idle.= _Pr._
=Luck, mere luck, may make even madness= 40
=wisdom.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those
who seek it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Lucri bonus est odor ex re / Qualibet=--The
smell of gain is good, from whatever it proceeds.
_Juv._
=Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum / Mercator
metuens, otium et oppidi / Laudat rura sui:
mox reficit rates / Quassas, indocilis pauperiem
pati=--The merchant, dreading the south-west
wind wrestling with the Icarian waves,
praises retirement and the rural life of his native
town, but soon he repairs his shattered bark,
incapable of being taught to endure poverty.
_Hor._
=Ludere cum sacris=--To trifle with sacred things.
=Ludit in humanis divina potestas rebus, / Et= 45
=certam præsens vix habet hora fidem=--The
divine power sports with human affairs so much
that we can scarcely be sure of the passing hour.
_Ovid._
=Lugete o Veneres Cupidinesque=--Weep, all ye
Venuses and Cupids. _Cat._
=Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, /
Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden
chain; / Awake but one, and lo! what
myriads rise! / Each stamps its image as
the other flies.= _Rogers._
=Lupo agnum eripere postulant=--They insist on
snatching the lamb from the wolf. _Plaut._
=Lupo ovem commisisti=--You have put the sheep
to the care of the wolf. _Ter._
=Lupus in fabula=--It is the wolf in the story; 50
talking of him, he appeared.
=Lupus non curat numerum (ovum)=--The wolf is
not scared by the number of the sheep. _Pr._
=Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem=--The wolf
changes his coat, but not his disposition. _Pr._
=Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti; / Tempus
abire tibi est=--Thou hast amused thyself
enough, hast eaten and drunk enough; 'tis time
for thee to depart. _Hor._
=Lust--hard by fate.= _Milton._
=Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always
putteth the affections into a false gallop.=
_St. Ambrose._
=Lust is an enemy to the purse, a canker to
the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a
weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses,
and a mortal bane to all the body.= _Pliny._
=Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, /
What most we ought to fear; the headstrong
beast / Rushes along, impatient of
the course; / Nor hears the rider's call, nor
fears the rein.= _Rowe._
=Lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better= 5
=or worse / Than the heart of the citizen
hissing in war on his own hearthstone?=
_Tennyson._
=Lust und Liebe sind die Fittiche / Zu grossen
Thaten=--Ambition and love are the wings to
great deeds. _Goethe._
=Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but
it is a desperate madness when opposed.=
_Bp. Hall._
=Lusus naturæ=--A freak of nature.
=Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Luther's words are half battles.= _Jean Paul._ 10
=Luxuriæ desunt multa, avaritiæ omnia=--Luxury
is in want of many things; avarice, of everything.
_Pub. Syr._
=Luxuriant animi rebus plerumque secundis; /
Nec facile est æqua commoda mente pati=--The
feelings generally run riot in prosperity;
and to bear good fortune with evenness of mind
is no easy task. _Ovid._
=Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.=
_Sir G. Mackenzie._
=Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard
mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall
in her heart, and a sting in her tail.= _Victor
Hugo._
=Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread= 15
=to the poor; but if there were no luxury,
there would be no poor.= _H. Home._
=Lydius lapis=--A Lydian or test stone.
=Lying and stealing live next door to each
other.= _Pr._
=Lying is a breach of promise; for whoever
seriously addresses his discourse to another
tacitly promises to speak the truth, because
he knows the truth is expected.= _Paley._
=Lying is a disgraceful vice, "affording testimony,"
as Plutarch says, "that one first
despises God and then fears men."= _Montaigne._
=Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of= 20
=the force of truth.= _Hazlitt._
=Lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord.=
_Bible._
=Lying may be pernicious in its general tendency,
and therefore criminal, though it produce
no particular or visible mischief to any
one.= _Paley._
=Lying pays no tax.= _Pr._
=Lying rides on debt's back.= _Pr._
=Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers= 25
=nous=--Lynx-eyed to our neighbours, and mole-eyed
to ourselves. _La Fontaine._
=Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age,
as the songs of the nightingales in every
spring-time.= _Heine._