Chapter L (2)

=Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs= 10 =least: / For wit is news only to ignorance. / Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest / Thy person share, and the conceit advance.= _George Herbert._

=Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, / But vindicate the ways of God to man.= _Pope._

=Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life; sorrow is more confusing and distracting than so-called giddiness.= _Jean Paul._

=Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all.= _Holmes._

=Laughter, holding both his sides.= _Milton._ 15

=Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision.= _H. Giles._

=Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.= _Leigh Hunt._

=Laughter is the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man.= _Carlyle._

=Laughter leaves us doubly serious shortly after.= _Byron._

=Laughter makes good blood.= _It. Pr._ 20

=Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow.= _Feltham._

=Laus Deo=--Praise be to God. _M._

=Laus est facere quod decet, non quod licet=--It is doing what we ought to do, and not merely doing what we may do, that is the ground of praise.

=Laus in proprio ore sordescit=--Self-praise is offensive. _Pr._

=Laus magna natis obsequi parentibus=--Great 25 praise is the meed of children who respect the wishes of their parents. _Phaedr._

=Lavish promises lessen credit.= _Hor._

=Lavishness is not generosity.= _Pr._

=Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.= _Colton._

=Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.= _Pr._

=Law has her seat in the bosom of God, her= 30 =voice in the harmony of the world.= _Hooker._

=Law is a bottomless pit; keep far from it.= _Pr._

=Law is a lottery.= _Pr._

=Law is not law if it violates the principles of eternal justice.= _L. M. Child._

=Law is powerful, necessity more so.= _Goethe._

=Law it is which is without name, or colour, or= 35 =hands, or feet; which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large; all, and knowing all things; which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet, and seizes without hands.= _Emerson._

=Law licks up a'.= _Sc. Pr._

=Law-makers should not be law-breakers.= _Pr._

=Law, man's sole guardian ever since the day when the old brazen age in sadness saw love fly the world.= _Schiller._

=Law teaches us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.= _Johnson._

=Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.= 40 _A, Hill._

=Lawless are they that make their wills their law.= _Sh._

=Laws act after crimes have been committed; prevention goes before them both.= _Zimmermann._

=Laws and rights are transmitted like an inveterate hereditary disease.= _Goethe._

=Laws are generally found to be nets of such texture as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in.= _Shenstone._

=Laws are intended to guard against what= 45 =men may do, not to trust what they will do.= _Junius._

=Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.= _Swift._

=Laws are like spider webs, small flies are ta'en, / While greater flies break in and out again.= _Braithwaite._

=Laws are not made for particular cases, but for men in general.= _Johnson._

=Laws are not made like nets--to catch, but like sea-marks--to guide.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Laws are not masters, but servants, and he= 50 =rules them who obeys them.= _Ward Beecher._

=Laws are not our life, only the house wherein our life is led; nay, they are but the bare walls of the house; all whose essential furniture, the inventions and traditions and daily habits that regulate and support our existence, are the work not of Dracos and Hampdens, but of Phœnician mariners, of Italian masons, and Saxon metallurgists, of philosophers, alchymists, prophets, and the long-forgotten train of artists and artisans, who from the first have been jointly teaching us how to think and how to act, how to rule over spiritual and physical nature.= _Carlyle._

=Laws are the silent assessors of God.= _W. R. Alger._

=Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.= _Louis XIV._

=Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man's rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all.= _J. G. Holland._

=Laws are usually most beneficial in operation on the people who would have most strongly objected to their enactment.= _Ruskin._

=Law's costly; tak' a pint and 'gree.= _Sc. Pr._

=Laws exist in vain for those who have not the courage and the means to defend them.= _Macaulay._

=Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the= 5 =law.= _Goldsmith._

=Laws, like cobwebs, catch flies, but let hornets go free.= _Pr._

=Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.= _C. H. Parkhurst._

=Laws should be like death, which spares no one.= _Montesquieu._

=Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.= _Montesquieu._

=Laws were made for rogues.= _It. Pr._ 10

=Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.= _Carlyle._

=Lawyers and painters can soon make black white.= _Pr._

=Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.= _Pr._

=Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them.= _Goldsmith._

=Lawyers are needful to keep us out of law.= 15 _Pr._

=Lawyers' houses are built of fools' heads.= _Fr. Pr._

=Lawyers, of whose art the basis / Is raising feuds and splitting cases.= _Butler._

=Lawyers' robes are lined with the obstinacy of litigants.= _It. Pr._

=Lawyers will live as long as mine and thine does.= _Ger. Pr._

=Lay by, like ants, a little store, / For summer= 20 =lasts not evermore.= _Pr._

=Lay by something for a rainy day.= _Pr._

=Lay not all the load on the lame horse.= _Pr._

=Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.= _Ham._, iii. 4.

=Lay not thine heart open to every one, but treat of thy affairs with the wise and such as fear God.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Lay the blame at the right door.= _Pr._ 25

=Lay the proud usurpers low! / Tyrants fall in every foe! / Liberty's in every blow! / Forward! let us die.= _Burns._

=Lay thy hand upon thy halfpenny twice before thou partest with it.= _Pr._

=Lay up and lay out should go together.= _Pr._

=Lay up that you may lay out.= _Pr._

=Lazarus did not go to Abraham's bosom because= 30 =he was poor, or every sluggard would go there easily.= _Spurgeon._

=Laziness begins with cobwebs and ends with iron chains.= _Pr._

=Laziness is nothing unless you carry it out.= _Pr._

=Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Lazy as Ludlam's dog, that laid his head against the wall to bark.= _Pr._

=Lazy folks ask for work with their lips, but= 35 =their hearts pray God that they may not find it.= _Creole saying._

=Lazy folk's stomachs don't get tired.= _Uncle Remus._

=Lazy is the hand that ploughs not.= _Gael. Pr._

=Le beau monde=--The fashionable world. _Fr._

=Le bestemmie fanno come le processioni; ritornano donde partirono=--Curses are like processions, they come back to whence they set out. _It. Pr._

=Le bien ne se fait jamais mieux que lorsqu'il= 40 =opère lentement=--Good is never more effectually done than when it is produced slowly. _Fr. Pr._

=Le bon sens vulgaire est un mauvais juge quand il s'agit des grandes choses=--Good common-sense is a bad judge when it is a question of high matters. _Renan._

=Le bon temps viendra=--The good time will come. _M._

=Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vie ne consiste pas à être sans passions, il consiste à en être le maître=--The happiness of man in this life does not consist in being devoid of passions, but in mastering them. _Fr._

=Le bonheur des méchants comme un torrent s'écoule=--The happiness of the wicked passes away like a brook. _Racine._

=Le bonheur des peuples dépend et de la félicité= 45 =dont ils jouissent au dedans et du respect qu'ils inspirent au dehors=--The welfare of nations depends at once on the happiness which they enjoy at home and the respect which they command abroad. _Helvetius._

=Le bonheur et le malheur des hommes ne dépendent pas moins de leur humeur que de la fortune=--The happiness and unhappiness of men depend as much on their dispositions as on fortune. _La Roche._

=Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée; il est très-difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs=--Happiness is no easy matter; it is very hard to find it within ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. _Chamfort._

=Le bonheur ne peut être / Où la vertu n'est pas=--Happiness cannot exist where virtue is not. _Quinault._

=Le bonheur ou le malheur vont ordinairement à ceux qui ont le plus de l'un ou de l'autre=--Good fortune or bad generally falls to those who have the greatest share of either. _La Roche._

=Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé=--Happiness 50 seems appointed to be shared. _Racine._

=Le bruit est si fort, qu'on n'entend pas Dieu tonner=--The noise (of things) is so deafening that we cannot hear God when He thunders. _Fr. Pr._

=Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte est pour le sot, / L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et ne dit mot=--Blustering is for the fop, whimpering for the fool; the sensible man when deceived goes off and says nothing. _Lanoue._

=Le chemin est long du projet à la close=--The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment. _Molière._

=Le ciel me prive d'une épouse qui ne m'a jamais donné d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort=--Heaven bereaves me of a spouse who never caused me any other vexation than by her death. _Louis XIV. of his wife._

=Le citoyen peut périr, et l'homme rester=--The citizen may perish and man remain. _Montesquieu._

=Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connoit pas=--The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. _Pascal._

=Le cœur de l'homme n'est jamais si inflexible que son esprit=--The heart of man is never so inflexible as his intellect. _Lamartine._

=Le cœur d'une femme est un vrai miroir qui= 5 =reçoit toutes sortes d'objets sans s'attacher à aucun=--The heart of woman is a real mirror, which reflects every object without attaching itself to any. _Fr._

=Le congrès ne marche pas; il danse=--The Congress does not advance; it dances. _The Prince de Ligne of the Vienna Congress._

=Le conquérant est craint, le sage est estimé, / Mais le bienfaiteur plait, et lui seul est aimé=--The conqueror is held in awe, the sage is esteemed, but it is the benevolent man who wins our affections and is alone beloved. _Fr._

=Le conseil manque à l'âme, / Et le guide au chemin=--The soul wants counsel, and the road a guide. _Fr._

=Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires, ou des personnes, est souvent la vérité=--The converse of what is currently reported about things and people is often the truth. _La Bruyère._

=Le contrat du gouvernement est tellement dissous= 10 =par despotisme que le despot n'est le maître qu'aussi long temps qu'il est le plus fort; et que si tôt qu'on peut l'expulser, il n'a point à réclaimer contre la violence=--The contract of government is so dissolved by despotism, that the despot is master only so long as he is the strongest, and that as soon as there is power to expel him, he has no right to protest against the violent proceeding. _Rousseau._

=Le corps politique, aussi bien que le corps de l'homme, commence à mourir dès sa naissance, et porte en lui-même les causes de sa destruction=--The body politic, like the body of man, begins to die as soon as it is born, and bears within it the seeds of its own dissolution. _Rousseau._

=Le cose non sono come sono, ma come si vedono=--Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded. _It. Pr._

=Le courage est souvent un effet de la peur=--Courage is often an effect of fear. _Fr. Pr._

=Le coûte en ôte le goût=--The cost takes away from the relish. _Fr. Pr._

=Le cri d'un peuple heureux est la seule éloquence= 15 =qui doit parler des rois=--The acclaim of a happy people is the only eloquence which ought to speak in the behalf of kings.

=Le crime fait la honte, et non pas l'échafaud=--It is the crime that's the disgrace, not the scaffold. _Corneille._

=Le désespoir comble non seulement notre misère, mais notre faiblesse=--Despair gives the finishing blow not only to misery, but to weakness. _Vauvenargues._

=Le désespoir redouble les forces=--Despair doubles our powers. _Fr. Pr._

=Le despotisme tempéré par l'assassinat, c'est notre Magna Charta=--Despotism tempered by assassination is our Magna Charta. _A Russian noble to Count Münster on the murder of the Czar Paul._

=Le dessous des cartes=--The lower side of the 20 cards. _Fr._

=Le devoir, c'est l'âme intérieure, c'est la vie de l'éducation=--Duty is the inner soul, the life of education. _Michelet._

=Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur métier est de la différer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur métier=--The duty of judges is to administer justice, but their practice is to delay it; some of them know their duty, but adhere to the practice. _La Bruyère._

=Le diable était beau quand il était jeune=--The devil was handsome when he was young. _Fr. Pr._

=Le divorce est le sacrement de l'adultère=--Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.

=Le doute s'introduit dans l'âme qui rêve, la foi= 25 =descend dans l'âme qui souffre=--Doubt insinuates itself into a soul that is dreaming; faith comes down into one that struggles and suffers.

=Le droit est au plus fort en amour comme en guerre, / Et la femme qu'on aime aura toujours raison=--Right is with the strongest in love as in war, / And the woman we love will always be right. _A. de Musset._

=Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort dans la cendre=--The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers in the ashes. _Corneille._

=Le génie c'est la patience=--Genius is just patience. _Fr. Pr._

=Le génie n'est autre chose qu'une grande aptitude à la patience=--Genius is nothing else than a sovereign capacity for patience. _Buffon._

=Le géologue est un nouveau genre d'antiquaire=--The 30 geologist is a new species of antiquarian. (?)

=Le gouvernement représentatif est la justice organisée, la raison vivante, la morale armée=--Representative government is justice organised, reason in living action, and morality armed. _Royer Collard._

=Le grand art de la supériorité, c'est de saisir les hommes par leur bon côté=--The great art of superiority is getting hold of people by their right side. _Mirabeau._

=Le grand monarque=--The grand monarch, Louis XIV.

=Le grandeur et le discernement sont des choses différentes, et l'amour pour la vertu, et pour les vertueux une troisième chose=--High rank and discernment are two different things, and love for virtue and for virtuous people is a third thing. _La Bruyère._

=Le hasard donne les pensées; le hazard les= 35 =ôte: point d'art pour conserver ni pour acquérir=--Chance suggests thoughts; changes deprive us of them: there is no rule for preserving or acquiring them. _Pascal._

=Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence=--Chance is a nickname for Providence. _Chamfort._

=Le jeu est le fils de l'avarice et le père du désespoir=--Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. _Fr. Pr._

=Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle=--The game is not worth the candle. _Fr. Pr._

=Le jour viendra=--The day will come. _M._

=Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros s'évanouit=--The mask falls off, the man remains, and the heroic vanishes. _J. B. Rousseau._

=Le mauvais métier que celui de censeur=--A bad business that of censor. _Guy Patin._

=Le méchant n'est jamais comique=--A bad man is never amusing. _De Maistre._

=Le médicin Tant-pis et le médicin Tant-mieux=--The pessimist and the optimist (_lit._ Doctor So-much-the-worse and Doctor So-much-the-better). _La Fontaine._

=Le mérité est souvent un obstacle à la fortune;= 5 =c'est qu'il produit toujours deux mauvais effets, l'envie et la crainte=--Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. _Fr._

=Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien=--Better is the enemy of well. _Fr. Pr._

=Le moindre grain de mil serait bien mieux mon affaire=--The smallest grain of millet would serve my needs better. _La Fontaine, "The Cock and the Pearl."_

=Le moineau en la main vaut mieux que l'oie qui vole=--A sparrow in the hand is worth a goose on the wing. _Fr. Pr._

=Le monde, chère Agnès, est une étrange chose=--The world, dear Agnes, is a queer concern. _Molière._

=Le monde est le livre des femmes=--The world 10 is the book of women. _Rousseau._

=Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas voir / Doit se tenir tout seul et casser son miroir=--The world is full of madmen, and he who would not see one must keep himself quite alone and break his looking-glass.

=Le monde paye d'ingratitude=--The world pays with ingratitude. _Fr. Pr._

=Le monde savant=--The learned world. _Fr._

=Le mort est le dernier trait du tableau de la vie=--Death is the finishing touch in the picture of life. _Fr._

=Le mot de l'énigme=--The key to the riddle. _Fr._ 15

=Le moy est haïssable=--Egotism is hateful. _Pascal._

=Le moyen le plus sûr de se consoler de tout ce qui peut arriver, c'est de s'attendre toujours au pire=--The surest way to console one's self against whatever may happen is always to expect the worst. _Fr._

=Le nombre des élus au Parnasse est complet=--The list of the elect of Parnassus is made up. (?)

=Le nombre des sages sera toujours petit=--The wise will always be few in number.

=Le parjure est une vertu, / Lorsque le serment= 20 =fut un crime=--Perjury is a virtue when the oath was a crime. _Voltaire._

=Le pas=--Precedence in place or rank. _Fr._

=Le pays du mariage a cela de particulier, que les étrangers ont envie de l'habiter, et les habitans naturels voudroient en être exilés=--The land of matrimony possesses this peculiarity, that strangers to it would like to dwell in it, and the natural inhabitants wish to be exiled. _Montaigne._

=Le pédant et l'instituteur disent à peu près les mêmes choses; mais le premier les dit à tout propos: le second ne les dit que quand il est sûr de leur effet=--The pedant and the teacher say nearly the same things; but the former on every occasion, the latter only when he is sure of their effect. _Rousseau._

=Le petit monde=--The lower orders. _Fr._

=Le peuple anglais pense être libre; il ne l'est= 25 =que durant l'élection des membres du parlement=--The English think they are free; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament. _Rousseau._

=Le peuple est le cœur du pays=--The people is the heart of a country. _Lamartine._

=Le peuple ne comprend que ce qu'il sent. Les seuls orateurs pour lui sont ceux qui l'émeuvent=--The people understand only what they feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. _Lamartine._

=Le plaisir le plus délicat est de faire celui d'autrui=--The most exquisite pleasure consists in promoting the pleasures of others. _La Bruyère._

=Le plus âne des trois n'est pas celui qu'on pense=--The greatest ass of the three is not the one who seems so. _La Fontaine, "The Miller, his Son, and his Ass."_

=Le plus dangereux ridicule des vieilles personnes= 30 =qui sont aimables, c'est d'oublier qu'elles ne le sont plus=--For old people, however estimable, to forget that they are no longer estimable is to expose themselves to certain ridicule. _La Roche._

=Le plus lent à promettre est toujours le plus fidèle à tenir=--He who is slow in promising is always the most faithful in performing. _Rousseau._

=Le plus sage est celui qui ne pense point l'être=--The wisest man is he who does not think he is so. _Boileau._

=Le plus semblable aux morts meurt le plus à regret=--He who most resembles the dead dies with most reluctance. _La Fontaine._

=Le plus véritable marque d'être né avec de grandes qualités, c'est d'être né sans envie=--The sure mark of being born with noble qualities is being born without envy. _La Roche._

=Le premier écu est plus difficile à gagner que= 35 =le second million=--The first five shillings are harder to win than the second million. _Fr. Pr._

=Le premier soupir de l'amour est le dernier de la sagesse=--The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. _Charron._

=Le présent est gros de l'avenir=--The present is big with coming events. _Leibnitz._

=Le présent est pour ceux qui jouissent, l'avenir pour ceux qui souffrent=--The present is for those who enjoy, the future for those who suffer. _Fr._

=Le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?=--The public! How many fools must there be to make a public? _Chamfort._

=Le réel est étroit, le possible est immense=--The 40 real is limited, the possible is unlimited. _Lamartine._

=Le refus des louanges est souvent un désir d'être loué deux fois=--The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated.

=Le repos est une bonne chose, mais l'ennui est son frère=--Repose is a good thing, but ennui is his brother. _Voltaire._

=Le reste ne vaut pas l'honneur d'être nommé=--The rest don't deserve to be mentioned. _Corneille._

=Le roi est mort; vive le roi!=--The king is dead; long live the king! _The form of announcing the death of a French king._

=Le roy et l'état=--The king and the state. _M._ 45

=Le roi le veut=--The king wills it. _The formula of royal assent in France._

=Le roi régne et ne gouverne pas=--The king reigns but does not govern. _Thiers at the accession of Louis Philippe._

=Le roi s'avisera=--The king will consider it. _The form of a royal veto in France._

=Le sage entend à demi-mot=--A hint suffices for a wise man. _Fr. Pr._

=Le sage quelquefois évite le monde de peur d'être ennuyé=--The wise man sometimes shuns society from fear of being bored. _La Bruyère._

=Le sage songe avant que de parler à ce qu'il= 5 =doit dire; le fou parle, et ensuite songe à ce qu'il a dit=--A wise man thinks before he speaks what he ought to say; the fool speaks and thinks afterwards what he has said. _Fr. Pr._

=Le savoir faire=--Knowing how to act; ability.

=Le savoir vivre=--Knowing how to live; good manners.

=Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire=--The secret of boring people is saying all that can be said on a subject. _Voltaire._

=Le sens commun est le génie de l'humanité=--Common sense is the genius of humanity. _Goethe._

=Le sentiment de la liberté est plus vif, plus il= 10 =y entre de malignité=--The passion for liberty is the keener the greater the malignity associated with it. _Fr._

=Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois=--The silence of the people is a lesson to kings. _M. de Beauvais._

=Le silence est l'esprit des sots, / Et l'une des vertus du sage=--Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise man. _Bonnard._

=Le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas sages=--Silence is the virtue of those who want it. _Bouhours._

=Le silence est le parti le plus sûr pour celui qui se défie de soi-même=--Silence is the safest course for the man who is diffident of himself. _La Roche._

=Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder= 15 =fixement=--Neither the sun nor death can be looked at fixedly. _La Roche._

=Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis=--It is to chance we owe our relatives, to choice our friends. _Delille._

=Le style est l'homme même=--The style is the man himself. _Buffon._

=Le superflu, chose très-nécessaire=--The superfluous, a thing highly necessary. _Voltaire._

=Le temps est un grand maître, il régle bien les choses=--Time is a great master; it regulates things well. _Corneille._

=Le temps guérit les douleurs et les querelles,= 20 =parcequ'on change, on n'est plus la même personne=--Time heals our griefs and wranglings, because we change, and are no longer the same. _Pascal._

=Le temps n'épargne pas ce qu'on fait sans lui=--Time preserves nothing that has been done without her, _i.e._, that has taken no time to do. _Favolle._

=Le tout ensemble=--The whole together. _Fr._

=Le travail du corps délivre des peines de l'esprit; et c'est ce qui rend les pauvres heureux=--Bodily labour alleviates the pains of the mind, and hence arises the happiness of the poor. _La Roche._

=Le travail éloigne de nous trois grand maux, l'ennui, le vice, et le besoin=--Labour relieves us from three great evils, ennui, vice, and want. _Fr._

=Le trépas vient tout guérir; / Mais ne bougeons= 25 =d'où nous sommes: / Plutôt souffrir que mourir, / C'est la devise des hommes=--Death comes to cure everything, but let us not stir from where we are. "Endure sooner than die," is the proper device for man. _La Fontaine._

=Le trident de Neptune est le sceptre du monde=--The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world. _Lemierre._

=Le vesciche galleggiano sopre aqua, mentre le cose di peso vanno al fondo=--Bladders swim on the surface of the water, while things of weight sink to the bottom. _It. Pr._

=Le vivre et le couvert, que faut-il davantage?=--Life and good fare, what more do we need? _La Fontaine, "The Rat in Retreat."_

=Le vrai mérite ne dépend point du temps ni de la mode=--True merit depends on neither time nor mode. _Fr. Pr._

=Le vrai moyen d'être trompé, c'est de se croire= 30 =plus fin que les autres=--The most sure way to be imposed on is to think one's self cleverer than other people. _La Roche._

=Le vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemblable=--The true is not always verisimilar. _Fr. Pr._

=Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemble=--What is true may sometimes seem unlike truth. _Boileau._

=Lead, kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom, / Lead thou me on.= _Newman._

=Lead thine own captivity captive, and be Cæsar within thyself.= _Sir Thomas Browne._

=Leal heart leed never.= _Sc. Pr._ 35

=Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.= _Pr._

=Lean not upon a broken reed, which will not only let thee fall, but pierce thy arm too.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind!= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 6.

=Learn a craft while you are young, that you may not have to live by craft when you are old.= _Pr._

=Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes,= 40 =or to envy the happiness of another.= _Addison._

=Learn of the little nautilus to sail, / Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.= _Pope._

=Learn taciturnity; let that be your motto.= _Burns._

=Learn that nonsense is none the less nonsense because it is in rhyme; and that rhyme without a purpose or a thought that has not been better expressed before is a public nuisance, only to be tolerated because it is good for trade.= _C. Fitzhugh._

=Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.= _Lavater._

=Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a= 45 =more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in--a real, not an imaginary--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.= _Carlyle to students._

=Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth so far as it makes us of benefit to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.= _Plutarch._

=Learn to creep before you leap.= _Pr._

=Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.= _Fuller._

=Learn to labour and to wait.= _Longfellow._

=Learn to say before you sing.= _Pr._ 5

=Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.= _Spurgeon._

=Learn wisdom from the follies of others.= _Pr._

=Learn you a bad habit, an' ye'll ca'd a custom.= _Sc. Pr._

=Learn young, learn fair; / Learn auld, learn mair.= _Sc. Pr._

=Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.= 10 _Ger. Pr._

=Learned Theban.= _Lear_, iii. 4.

=Learned without sense and venerably dull.= _Churchill._

=Learning by study must be won, / 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.= _Gay._

=Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.= _Fuller._

=Learning hath its infancy, when it is almost= 15 =childish; then its youth, when luxurious and juvenile; then its strength of years, when solid; and lastly its old age, when dry and exhaust.= _Bacon._

=Learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country.= _Hitopadesa._

=Learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it is wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.= _Montaigne._

=Learning is a livelihood.= _Hitopadesa._

=Learning is a sceptre to some, a bauble to others.= _Pr._

=Learning is a superior sight.= _Hitopadesa._ 20

=Learning is an addition beyond / Nobility of birth; honour of blood, / Without the ornament of knowledge, is / A glorious ignorance.= _Shirley._

=Learning is better than hidden treasure.= _Hitopadesa._

=Learning is better worth than house or land.= _Crabbe._

=Learning is but an adjunct to ourself; / And, where we are, our learning likewise is.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.

=Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but= 25 =we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye.= _Montaigne._

=Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the height of enjoyment.= _Novalis._

=Learning is strength inexhaustible.= _Hitopadesa._

=Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar, of science.= _Sterne._

=Learning is the source of renown, and the fountain of victory in the senate.= _Hitopadesa._

=Learning itself, received into a mind / By= 30 =nature weak or viciously inclined, / Serves but to lead philosophers astray, / Where children would with ease discern the way.= _Cowper._

=Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly devoid of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpose of sense and happiness.= _Shenstone._

=Learning, like the lunar beam, affords light, not heat.= _Young._

=Learning makes a man a fit companion for himself.= _Pr._

=Learning makes a man wise, but a fool is made all the more a fool by it.= _Pr._

=Learning needs rest; sovereignty gives it.= 35 =Sovereignty needs counsel; learning affords it.= _Ben Jonson._

=Learning once made popular is no longer learning.= _Johnson._

=Learning passes for wisdom among them who want both.= _Sir W. Temple._

=Learning puffeth men up; words are but wind, and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.= _Swift._

=Learning to a man is a name superior to beauty.= _Hitopadesa._

=Learning to the inexperienced is a poison.= 40 _Hitopadesa._

=Learning without thought is labour lost.= _Pr._

=Least said is soonest mended.= _Pr._

=Leave a jest when it pleases you best.= _Pr._

=Leave a man to his passions, and you leave a wild beast of a savage and capricious nature.= _Burke._

=Leave a welcome behind you.= _Pr._ 45

=Leave all piggies' ears alone rather than seize upon the wrong one.= _Spurgeon._

=Leave all things to a Father's will, / And taste, before him lying still, / Even in affliction, peace.= _Anstice._

=Leave all to God, / Forsaken one, and stay thy tears!= _Winkworth._

=Leave Ben Lomond where it stands.= _Sc. Pr._

=Leave her to heaven, / And to those thorns= 50 =that in her bosom lodge, / To prick and sting her.= _Ham._, i. 5.

=Leave it if you cannot mend it.= _Pr._

=Leave not the meat to gnaw the bones, / Nor break your teeth on worthless stones.= _Pr._

=Leave off no clothes / Till you see a June rose.= _Pr._

="Leave off your fooling and come down, sir."= _Oliver Cromwell._

=Leave the court ere the court leave you.= 55 _Sc. Pr._

=Leave the great ones of the world to manage their own concerns, and keep your eyes and observations at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Leave this keen encounter of our wits, / And fall somewhat into a slower method.= _Rich. III._, i. 2.

=Leave to-morrow till to-morrow.= _Pr._

=Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal.= _Emerson._

=Leave well alone.= _Pr._ 60

=Leave you your power to draw, / And I shall have no power to follow you.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, ii. 2.

=Leaves enough, but few grapes.= _Pr._

=Leaves have their time to fall, / And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, / And stars to set; but all, / Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death!= _Mrs. Hemans._

=Leaving for gleaner makes farmer no leaner.= _Pr._

=Lebe, wie du, wenn du stirbst, / Wünschen wirst, gelebt zu haben=--Live, as you will wish to have lived when you come to die. _Gellert._

=Leben athme die bildende Kunst, / Geist fordr' ich vom Dichter=--Let painting and sculpture breathe life; it is spirit itself I require of the poet. _Schiller._

=Leben heisst träumen: weise sein heisst= 5 =angenehm träumen=--To live is to dream, to be wise is to dream agreeably. _Schiller._

=Leberide cæcior=--Blinder than a serpent's slough. _Pr._

=Led by illusions romantic and subtle deceptions of fancy, / Pleasure disguised as duty, and love in the semblance of friendship.= _Longfellow._

=Leeze me o' drink; it gies us mair / Than either school or college; / It kindles wit, it waukens lair= (learning), / =It pangs= (stuffs) =us fu' o' knowledge.= _Burns._

=Legant prius et postea despeciant=--Let them read first, and despise afterwards. _Lope de Vega._

=Legatus a latere=--An extraordinary Papal ambassador. 10

=Lege totum si vis scire totum=--Read the whole if you wish to know the whole.

=Legem brevem esse oportet quo facilius ab imperitis teneatur=--A law ought to be short, that it may be the more easily understood by the unlearned. _Sen._

=Leges ad civium salutem, civitatumque incolumitatem conditæ sunt=--Laws were framed for the welfare of citizens and the security of states. _Cic._

=Leges bonæ malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good laws are begotten of bad morals. _Pr._

=Leges mori serviunt=--Laws are subordinate to 15 custom. _Plaut._

=Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant=--Later statutes repeal prior contrary ones. _L._

=Leges sunt inventæ quæ cum omnibus semper una atque eadem voce loquerentur=--Laws are so devised that they may always speak with one and the same voice to all. _Cic._

=Legimus ne legantur=--We read that others may not read. _Lactantius._

=Legis constructio non facit injuriam=--The construction of the law does injury to no man. _L._

=Legum ministri magistratus, legum interpretes= 20 =judices; legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possimus=--The magistrates are the ministers of the laws, the judges their interpreters; we are all, in short, servants of the laws, that we may be free men. _Cic._

=Leib und Seele schmachten in hundert Banden, die unzerreissbar sind, aber auch in hundert andern, die ein einziger Entschluss zerreisst=--Body and soul languish under a hundred entanglements from which there is no deliverance, but also in hundreds of others which a single resolution can snap away. _Feuchtersleben._

=Leicht zu sättigen ist, und unersättlich, die Liebe=--Love is at once easy to satisfy and insatiable. _Rückert._

=Leichter trägt, was er trägt, / Wer Geduld zur Bürde legt=--He bears what he bears more lightly who adds patience to the burden. _Logau._

=Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of their being weary of themselves.= _Sir W. Temple._

=Leisure for men of business, and business for= 25 =men of leisure, would cure many complaints.= _Mrs. Thrale._

=Leisure is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction except in solitude.= _Zimmermann._

=Leisure is the reward of labour.= _Pr._

=Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Lend, hoping for nothing again.= _Bible._

=Lend only what you can afford to lose.= 30 _Pr._

=Length of saying makes languor of hearing.= _J. Roux._

=Lenior et melior fis, accedente senecta=--You become milder and better as old age advances. _Hor._

=Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, / Quæ venit indigne pœna dolenda venit=--Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. _Ovid._

=Lenity is part of justice.= _Joubert._

=Lenity will operate with greater force, in some= 35 =instances, than rigour. It is, therefore, my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.= _G. Washington._

=Leonem larva terres=--You frighten a lion with a mask. _Pr._

=Leonina societas=--Partnership with a lion.

=Leonum ora a magistris impune tractantur=--The mouths of lions are with impunity handled by their keepers. _Sen._

=Leporis vitam vivit=--He lives the life of a hare, _i.e._, always full of fear. _Pr._

=Lern' entbehren, O Freund, / Beut Trotz dem= 40 =Schmerz und dem Tode, / Und kein Gott des Olymps fühlet sich freier, als du=--Learn to dispense with things, O friend, bid defiance to pain and death, and no god on Olympus breathes more freely than thou. _Bürger._

=Lerne vom Schlimmsten Gutes, und Schlimmes nicht vom Besten=--Learn good from the worst, and not bad from the best. _Lavater._

=Les affaires? c'est bien simple: c'est l'argent des autres=--Business? That's easily defined: it is other people's money. _Dumas fils._

=Les affaires font les hommes=--Business makes men. _Fr._

=Les amertumes sont en morale ce que sont les amers en médicine=--Afflictions are in morals what bitters are in medicine. _Fr._

=Les âmes privilégiées rangent à l'égal des= 45 =souverains=--Privileged souls rank on a level with princes. _Frederick the Great._

=Les amis, ces parents que l'on se fait soi-même=--Friends, those relations that we make ourselves.

=Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis=--My friends' friends are my friends. _Fr. Pr._

=Les anglais s'amusent tristement=--The English have a heavy-hearted way of amusing themselves. _Sully._

=Les beaux esprits se rencontrent=--Great wits draw together. _Fr. Pr._

=Les belles actions cachées sont les plus estimables=--The acts that we conceal are regarded with the highest esteem. _Pascal._

=Les biens mal acquis s'en vont à vau-l'eau=--Wealth ill acquired soon goes (_lit._ goes with the stream). _Fr. Pr._

=Les biens viennent, les biens s'en vont, /= 5 =Comme la fumée, comme toute chose=--Wealth comes and goes like smoke, like everything. _Bret. Pr._

=Les bras croisés=--Idle (_lit._ the arms folded). _Fr._

=Les cartes sont brouillées=--A fierce dissension has arisen (_lit._ the cards are mixed).

=Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source=--Things are always best at their source. _Pascal._

=Les cloches appellent à l'église, mais n'y entrent pas=--The bells call to church, but they do not enter. _Fr. Pr._

=Les consolations indiscrètes ne font qu'aigrir= 10 =les violentes afflictions=--Consolation indiscreetly pressed only aggravates the poignancy of the affliction. _Rousseau._

=Les délicats sont malheureux, / Rien ne saurait les satisfaire=--The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. _La Fontaine._

=Les enfants sont ce qu'on les fait=--Children are what we make them. _Fr. Pr._

=Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie=--The envious will die, but envy never will. _Molière._

=Les esprits médiocres condamnent d'ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur portée=--Men of limited intelligence generally condemn everything that is above their power of understanding. _La Roche._

=Les extrêmes se touchent=--Extremes meet. 15 _Mercier._

=Les femmes ont toujours quelque arrière-pensée=--Women have always some mental reservation. _Destouches._

=Les femmes ont un instinct céleste pour le malheur=--Women have a divine instinctive feeling for misfortune. _Fr._

=Les femmes peuvent tout, parcequ'elles gouvernent les personnes qui gouvernent tout=--Women can accomplish everything, because they govern those who govern everything. _Fr. Pr._

=Les femmes sont extrêmes: elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes=--Women indulge in extremes; they are always either better or worse than men. _La Bruyère._

=Les gens qui ont peu d'affaires, sont de très= 20 =grands parleurs=--People who have little to do are excessive talkers. _Fr._

=Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux=--Still people are dangerous. _La Fontaine._

=Les girouettes qui sont placées le plus haut, tournent le mieux=--Weathercocks placed on the most elevated stations turn the most readily. _Fr. Pr._

=Les grandes âmes ne sont pas celles qui ont moins de passions et plus de vertus que les âmes communes, mais celles seulement qui ont de plus grands desseins=--Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than common souls, but those only who have greater designs. _La Roche._

=Les grands et les petits ont mêmes accidents, et mêmes fâcheries et mêmes passions, mais l'un est au haut de la roue et l'autre près du centre, et ainsi moins agité par les mêmes mouvements=--Great and little are subject to the same mischances, worries, and passions, but one is on the rim of the wheel and the other near the centre, and so is less agitated by the same movements. _Pascal._

=Les grands hommes ne se bornent jamais dans= 25 =leurs desseins=--Great men never limit themselves to a circumscribed sphere of action. _Bouhours._

=Les grands hommes sont non-seulement populaires: ils donnent la popularité à tout ce qu'ils touchent=--Great men are not only popular themselves; they give popularity to whatever they touch. _Fournier._

=Les grands ne sont grands que parceque nous sommes à genoux; relevons-nous!=--The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise up. _Quoted by Prudhomme._

=Les grands noms abaissent, au lieu d'élever ceux qui ne les savent pas soutenir=--High titles lower, instead of raising, those who know not how to support them. _La Roche._

=Les grands seigneurs ont des plaisirs, le peuple a de la joie=--High people have pleasures, common people have joy. _Montesquieu._

=Les haines sont si longues et si opiniâtres,= 30 =que le plus grand signe de mort dans un homme malade, c'est la réconciliation=--The passion of hatred is so long-lived and obstinate a malady, that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is his desire for reconciliation. _La Bruyère._

=Les hommes extrêmement heureux et les hommes extrêmement malheureux, sont également portés à la dureté=--Men extremely happy and men extremely unhappy are alike prone to become hard-hearted. _Montesquieu._

=Les hommes font les lois, les femmes font les mœurs=--Men make the laws, women the manners. _Guibert._

=Les hommes fripons en détail sont en gros de très honnêtes gens=--Men who are knaves severally are in the mass highly honourable people. _Montesquieu._

=Les hommes ne sont justes qu'envers ceux qu'ils aiment=--Men are just only to those they love. _Fr._

=Les hommes sont cause que les femmes ne= 35 =s'aiment point=--It is on account of the men that the women do not love each other. _La Bruyère._

=Les hommes sont rares=--Men are rare. _Fr. Pr._

=Les honneurs changent les mœurs=--Honours change manners. _Fr. Pr._

=Les honneurs coutent à qui veut les posséder=--Honours are dearly bought by whoever wishes to possess them. _Fr. Pr._

=Les jeunes gens disent ce qu'ils font, les vieillards ce qu'ils ont fait, et les sots ce qu'ils ont envie de faire=--Young people talk of what they are doing, old people of what they have done, and fools of what they have a mind to do. _Fr._

=Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas=--The 40 days follow, but are not like each other. _Fr. Pr._

=Les magistrates, les rois n'ont aucune autorité sur les âmes; et pourvu qu'on soit fidèle aux lois de la société dans ce monde, ce n'est point à eux de se mêler de ce qu'on deviendra dans l'autre, où ils n'ont aucune inspection=--Rulers have no authority over men's souls; and provided we are faithful to the laws of society in this world, it is no business of theirs to concern themselves with what may become of us in the next, over which they have no supervision. _Rousseau._

=Les maladies viennent à cheval, retournent à pied=--Diseases make their attack on horseback, but retire on foot. _Fr._

=Les malheureux qui ont de l'esprit trouvent des resources en eux-mêmes=--Men of genius when under misfortune find resources within themselves. _Bouhours._

=Les maximes des hommes décèlent leur cœur=--Men show what they are by their maxims. _Vauvenargues._

=Les méchants sont toujours surpris de trouver= 5 =de l'habilité dans les bons=--Wicked men are always surprised to discover ability in good men. _Vauvenargues._

=Les médiocrités croient égaler le génie en dépassant la raison=--Men of moderate abilities think to rank as geniuses by outstripping reason. _Lamartine._

=Les mœurs du prince contribuent autant à la liberté que les lois=--The manners of the prince conduce as much to liberty as the laws. _Montesquieu._

=Les mœurs se corrompent de jour en jour, et on ne saurait plus distinguer les vrais d'avec les faux amis=--Our manners are daily degenerating, and we can no longer distinguish true friends from false. _Fr._

=Les moissons, pour mûrir, ont besoin de rosée, / Pour vivre et pour sentir, l'homme a besoin des pleurs=--Harvests to ripen have need of dew; man, to live and to feel, has need of tears. _A. de Musset._

=Les mortels sont égaux; ce n'est point la naissance, /= 10 =C'est la seule vertu qui fait la différence=--All men are equal; it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. _Voltaire._

=Les murailles= (or =murs=) =ont des oreilles=--Walls have ears. _Fr. Pr._

=Les passions personelles se lassent et s'usent; les passions publiques jamais=--Private passions tire and exhaust themselves; public ones never. _Lamartine._

=Les passions sont les seuls orateurs qui persuadent toujours=--The passions are the only orators which always convince us. _La Roche._

=Les passions sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du vaisseau; elles le submergent quelquefois, mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer=--The passions are the winds that fill the sails of the ship; they sometimes sink it, but without them it could not make any way. _Voltaire._

=Les passions sont les vents qui font aller notre= 15 =vaisseau, et la raison est le pilote qui le conduit; le vaisseau n'irait point sans les vents, et se perdrait sans le pilote=--The passions are the winds which propel our vessel; our reason is the pilot that steers her; without winds the vessel would not move; without pilot she would be lost. _Fr._

=Les petits chagrins rendent tendre; les grands, dur et farouche=--Slight troubles render us tender; great ones make us hard and unfeeling. _André Chénier._

=Les peuples une fois accoutumés à des maîtres ne sont plus en état de s'en passer=--People once accustomed to masters are no longer able to dispense with them. _Rousseau._

=Les plaisirs sont amers si tôt qu'on en abuse=--Pleasures become bitter as soon as they are abused. _Fr. Pr._

=Les plus grands crimes ne coutent rien aux ambitieux, quand il s'agit d'une couronne=--The greatest crimes cause no remorse in an ambitious man when a crown is at stake. _Fr._

=Les plus grands hommes d'une nation sont= 20 =ceux qu'elle met à mort=--The greatest men of a nation are those whom it puts to death. _Renan._

=Les plus malheureux osent pleurer le moins=--Those who are most wretched dare least give vent to their grief. _Fr._

=Les querelles ne dureraient pas longtemps, si le tort n'était que d'un côté=--Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side. _La Roche._

=Les races se féminisent=--Races are becoming effeminate. _Fr._

=Les républiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies par la pauvreté=--Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. _Montesquieu._

=Les rivières sont des chemins qui marchent=--Rivers 25 are moving roads. _Pascal._

=Les sophistes ont ébranlé l'autel, mais ce sont les prêtres qui l'ont avili=--The sophists have shaken the altar, but it is the priests that have disgraced it. _Regnault de Waren._

=Les sots depuis Adam sont en majorité=--Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority. _Delavigne._

=Les talents sont distribués par la nature, sans égard aux généalogies=--Talents go by nature, not by birth. _Frederick the Great._

=Les utopies ne sont souvent que des vérités prématuriées=--Utopias are often only premature truths. _Lamartine._

=Les vérités sont des fruits qui ne doivent être= 30 =cueillis que bien mûrs=--Truths, like fruits, ought not to be gathered until they are quite ripe, _i.e._, till the time is ripe for them. _Fr. Pr._

=Les vers sont enfants de la lyre; / Il faut les chanter, non les lire=--Verses are children of the lyre; they must be sung, not read. _Fr._

=Les vertus se perdent dans l'intérêt comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer=--Our virtues lose themselves in our interests, as the rivers lose themselves in the ocean. _La Roche._

=Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n'être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples=--Old men like to give good precepts, to make amends for being no longer able to set bad examples. _La Roche._

=Les vieilles coutumes sont les bonnes coutumes=--The old customs are the good customs. _Bret. Pr._

=Les vieux fous sont plus fous que les jeunes=--Old 35 fools are more foolish than young ones. _La Roche._

=Les villes sont le gouffre de l'espèce humaine=--Towns are the sink of our race. _Rousseau._

=Lèse-majesté=--High-treason. _Fr._

=Leser, wie gefall' ich dir? / Leser, wie gefällst du mir?=--Reader, how please I thee? Reader, how pleasest thou me? _M._

=Less in rising into lofty abstractions lies the difficulty, than in seeing well and lovingly the complexities of what is at hand.= _Carlyle._

=Less of your courtesy and more of your purse.= _Pr._

=Less of your honey and more of your honesty.= 5 _Pr._

=Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know.= _Pr._

=Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions.= _Sterne._

=Lessons of wisdom open to our view / In all life's varied scenes of gay or gloomy hue.= _De Bosch._

=Let a good pot have a good lid.= _Pr._

=Let a hoard always be made, but not too= 10 =great a hoard.= _Hitopadesa._

=Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.= _Pr._

=Let a man be a man, and a woman a woman.= _Pr._

=Let a man be but born ten years sooner or ten years later, his whole aspect and performance shall be different.= _Goethe._

=Let a man believe in God, and not in names, places, and persons.= _Emerson._

=Let a man do his work; the fruit of it is the= 15 =care of Another than he.= _Carlyle._

=Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.= _Buddha._

=Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his wax taper.= _Dan. Pr._

=Let a woman once give you a task, and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken.= _Jean Paul._

=Let ae deil ding= (beat) =anither.= _Sc. Pr._

=Let all things be done decently and in order.= 20 _St. Paul._

=Let anger's fire be slow to burn.= _Pr._

=Let another do what thou wouldst do.= _Pr._

=Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.= _Bible._

=Let another's shipwreck be your beacon.= _Pr._

=Let any man compare his present fortune= 25 =with the past, and he will probably find himself, upon the whole, neither better nor worse than formerly.= _Goldsmith._

=Let authors write for glory or reward; / Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.= _Bp. Corbet._

=Let but the mirror be clear, this is the great point; the picture must and will be genuine.= _Carlyle._

=Let but the public mind once become thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty, or life by mere force of laws written on parchment will be as vain as putting up printed notices in an orchard to keep off canker-worms.= _Hor. Mann._

=Let byganes be byganes, / Wha's huffed at anither, / Dinna cloot the auld days / And the new anes thegither; / Wi' the fauts and the failings / O' past years be dune, / Wi a grip o' fresh freen'ship / A New-Year begin.= _M. W. Wood._

=Let charity be warm if the weather be cold.= 30 _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._