Chapter L (3)

=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._