Chapter L (4)

=Limitations refine as the soul purifies, but the ring of necessity is always perched at the top.= _Emerson._

=Limiting of one's life always conduces to happiness.= _Schopenhauer._

=Lingua mali loquax malæ mentis est indicium=--An evil tongue is the proof of an evil mind. _Pub. Syr._

=Lingua mali pars pessima servi=--His tongue is 15 the worst part of a bad servant. _Juv._

=Lingua melior, sed frigida bello / Dextera=--Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. _Virg._

=Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum, / Ferrea vox=--It has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. _Virg., of Rumour._

=Linguam compescere, virtus non minima est=--To restrain the tongue is not the least of the virtues.

=Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens / Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum, / Te, præter invisas cupressos, / Ulla brevem dominum sequetur=--Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. _Hor._

=Lions are not frightened by cats.= _Pr._ 20

=Lions' skins are not to be had cheap.= _Pr._

=Lippen to= (trust) =me, but look to yoursel'.= _Sc. Pr._

=Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears.= _S. Lover._

=Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door.= _Delaune._

=Lis litem generat=--Strife genders strife. _Pr._ 25

=List geht über Gewalt-=-Cunning overcomes strength. _Ger. Pr._

=List his discourse of war, and you shall hear / A fearful battle render'd you in music; / Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.

=Listen at a hole, and ye'll hear news o' yoursel'.= _Sc. Pr._

=Listeners never hear good of themselves.= _Sp. Pr._

=Lite pendente=--During the lawsuit. 30

=Litem parit lis, noxa item noxam parit=--Strife begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury. _Pr._

=Litera canina=--The canine letter (the letter R).

=Litera occidit, spiritus autem vivificat=--The letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. _Vulgate._

=Litera scripta manet, verbum ut inane perit=--Written testimony remains, but oral perishes.

=Literæ Bellerophontis=--A Bellerophon's letter, 35 _i.e._, a letter requesting that the bearer should be dealt with in some summary way for an offence.

=Literæ humaniores=--Polite literature; arts in a university.

=Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, and to whom they are related.= _Heine._

=Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood.= _Carlyle._

=Literature, as a field for glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; as a means of support, it is the very chance of chances.= _H. Giles._

=Literature consists of all the books--and they= 40 =are not many--where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form.= _John Morley._

=Literature draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies.= _Lowell._

=Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.= _Froude._

=Literature has her quacks no less than medicine: those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth.= _Colton._

=Literature has other aims than that of harmlessly amusing indolent, languid men.= _Carlyle._

=Literature is a fragment of a fragment, and= 45 =of this but little is extant.= _Goethe._

=Literature is a great staff, but a sorry crutch.= _Scott._

=Literature is fast becoming all in all to us--our church, our senate, our whole social constitution.= _Carlyle._

=Literature is representative of intellect, which is progressive; government is representative of order, which is stationary.= _Buckle._

=Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.= _Tuckerman._

=Literature is the thought of thinking souls.= 50 _Carlyle._

=Literature, like virtue, is its own reward.= _Chesterfield._

=Literature positively has other aims than this of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest or true aim.= _Carlyle._

=Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.= _W. Godwin._

=Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one;--rather a hard fight at times.= _Carlyle._

=Litteræ non erubescunt=--A letter does not blush. _Cic._

=Little and often fills the purse.= _Pr._

=Little bantams are great at crowing.= _Pr._

=Little boats must keep near shore.= _Pr._

=Little bodies have great souls.= _Pr._ 5

=Little by little the little bird builds its nest.= _Pr._

=Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows.= _Pr._

=Little chips light great fires.= _Pr._

=Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, / Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.= _F. S. Osgood._

=Little dew-drops of celestial melody.= _Carlyle,_ 10 _of Burns' songs._

=Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.= _Bacon._

=Little drops of rain pierce the hard marble.= _Lily._

=Little drops of water, little grains of sand, / Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. / Thus the little minutes, humble though they be, / Make the mighty ages of eternity.= _F. S. Osgood._

=Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.= _Pr._

=Little fishes should not spout like whales.= _Pr._ 15

=Little flower--if I could understand / What you are, root and all, and all in all, / I should know what God and man is.= _Tennyson._

=Little folks like to talk about great folks.= _Pr._

=Little gear, less care.= _Sc. Pr._

=Little griefs are loud, great sorrows are silent.= _Pr._

=Little is done when every man is master.= _Pr._ 20

=Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread, and never bring disgust; and great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then with satiety.= _Jean Paul._

=Little kingdom is great household, and great household little kingdom.= _Bacon._

=Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.= _Holmes._

=Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.= _Washington Irving._

=Little minds are too much wounded by little= 25 =things; great minds see all, and are not even hurt.= _La Roche._

=Little minds, like weak liquors, are soonest soured.= _Pr._

=Little odds between a feast and a fu' wame= (stomach). _Sc. Pr._

=Little of this great world can I speak, / More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; / And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause / In speaking for myself. Yet by your gracious patience, / I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver / Of my whole course of love.= _Othello_, i. 3.

=Little ones are taught to be proud of their clothes before they can put them on.= _Locke._

=Little opportunities should be improved.= 30 _Fenélon._

=Little pigeons can carry great messages.= _Pr._

=Little pigs eat great potatoes.= _Pr._

=Little pitchers have long ears=, _i.e._, children have. _Pr._

=Little pot, / Don't get hot / On the spot.= _Pr._

=Little pots soon boil over.= _Ger. Pr._ 35

=Little souls on little shifts rely.= _Dryden._

=Little strokes fell great oaks.= _Pr._

=Little thieves have iron chains and great thieves gold ones.= _Dut. Pr._

=Little things blame not: Grace may on them wait. / Cupid is little; but his godhead's great.= _Anon._

=Little things please little minds.= _Pr._ 40

=Little troubles are great to little people.= _Pr._

=Little waves with their soft white hands efface the footprints in the sands.= _Longfellow._

=Little wealth, little sorrow.= _Pr._

=Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.= _Pr._

=Little wrongs done to others are great wrongs= 45 =done to ourselves.= _Pr._

=Littore quot conchæ, tot sunt in amore dolores=--There are as many pangs in love as shells on the sea-shore. _Ovid._

=Littus ama, altum alii teneant=--Hug thou the shore, let others stand out to sea. _Virg._

=Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.= _Ruskin._

=Live and let live.= _Pr._

=Live as long as you may, the first twenty= 50 =years are the longest half of your life.= _Southey._

=Live for to-day! to-morrow's light, / Tomorrow's cares shall bring to sight; / Go sleep, like closing flowers, at night, / And Heaven thy morn will bless.= _Keble._

=Live in to-day, but not for to-day.= _Pr._

=Live, live to-day; to-morrow never yet / On any human being rose or set.= _Marsden._

=Live not for yourself alone.= _Pr._

=Live not to eat, but eat to live.= _Pr._ 55

=Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round / Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make / The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly / Upon its path--the Lord of Life alone / Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on.= _Lewis Morris._

=Live on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure--the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret.= _Johnson._

=Live only a moment at a time.= _Pr._

=Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape, / And ivy berry, choose; and still depart / From death to death thro' life and life, and find / Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought / Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite, / But this main miracle, that thou art thou, / With power on thine own act and on the world.= _Tennyson._

=Live to learn and learn to live.= _Pr._ 60

=Live upon trust, / And pay double you must.= _Pr._

=Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon nor live too long.= _Lady R. Russel._

=Live we how we can, yet die we must.= 3 _Hen. VI._, v. 2.

=Live with a singer if you would learn to sing.= _Pr._

=Live with thy century, but be not its creature; produce for thy contemporaries, however, what they need, not what they applaud.= _Schiller._

=Live with your friend as if he might become your enemy.= _Pr._

=Lively feeling of situations, and power to express them, make the poet.= _Goethe._

=Lives of great men all remind us, / We can= 5 =make our lives sublime; / And departing leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time.= _Longfellow._

=Living religion grows not by the doctrines, but by the narratives of the Bible.= _Jean Paul._

=Living well is the best revenge.= _Pr._

=Lo ageno siempre pia por su dueño=--What is another's always chirps for its master. _Sp. Pr._

=Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.= _Jesus to His disciples._

=Lo que hace el loco á la derreria, hace el sabio= 10 =á la primeria=--What the fool does at length the wise man does at the beginning. _Sp. Pr._

=Lo que no acaece en un año, acaece en un rato=--A thing that may not happen in a year may happen in two minutes. _Sp. Pr._

=Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind / Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; / His soul proud science never taught to stray / Far as the solar walk or milky way; / Yet simple nature to his hope has given, / Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven.= _Pope._

=Loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._, i. 3.

=Loans and debts make worries and frets.= _Pr._

=Loans should come laughing home.= _Pr._ 15

=Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.= _Shakespeare._

=Loaves put awry in the oven come out awry.= _Pr._

=Loci communes=--Topics.

=Lock the stable before you lose the steed.= _Pr._

=Locking the stable door when the steed is= 20 =stolen.= _Pr._

=Loco citato=--In the place quoted.

=Locum tenens=--A deputy or substitute.

=Locus classicus=--A classical passage.

=Locus est et pluribus umbris=--There is room for more introductions. _Hor._

=Locus in quo=--The place in which; the place previously 25 occupied.

=Locus penitentiæ=--Place for repentance.

=Locus sigili=--The place for the seal; pointed out in documents by the letters L.S.

=Locus standi=--Standing in a case; position in an argument.

=Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.= _Joseph Roux._

=Logic works; metaphysic contemplates.= _Joubert._ 30

=Loin de la cour, loin du souci=--Far from court, far from care. _Fr. Pr._

=Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain.= _Johnson._

=Long experience made him sage.= _Gay._

=Long lent is not given.= _Pr._

=Long talk makes short work.= _Pr._ 35

=Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away.= _Jean Paul._

=Longa est injuria, longæ / Ambages=--Long is the story of her wrongs, tedious the details. _Virg._

=Longa mora est, quantum noxæ sit ubique repertum / Enumerare: minor fuit ipsa infamia vero=--It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth. _Ovid._

=Longe aberrat scopo=--He is wide of the mark; has gone quite out of his sphere.

=Longe absit=--Far be it from me; God forbid. 40

=Longe mea discrepat istis / Et vox et ratio=--Both my language and my sentiments differ widely from theirs. _Hor._

=Longo sed proximus intervallo=--Next, with a long interval between. _Virg._

=Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla=--The road to learning by precept is long, by example short and effectual. _Sen._

=Look above you, and then look about you.= _Pr._

=Look, as I blow this feather from my face, / And= 45 =as the air blows it to me again / ... Commanded always by the greater gust; / Such is the lightness of you common men.= 3 _Henry VI._, iii. 1.

=Look at home, father priest, mother priest; your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility than mine can be. Your priesthood is from God's own hands.= _Ward Beecher._

=Look at paintings and fightings from a distance.= _Pr._

=Look at the bright side of a failure as well as the dark.= _Anon._

=Look at your own corn in May, / And you'll come weeping away.= _Pr._

=Look before you leap.= _Pr._ 50

=Look before you, or you'll have to look behind you.= _Pr._

=Look for squalls, but don't make them.= _Pr._

=Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; / There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.

=Look how we can, or sad or merrily, / Interpretation will misquote our looks.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 2.

=Look in the glass when you with anger glow, /= 55 =And you'll confess you scarce yourself would know.= _Ovid._

=Look in thy heart and write.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Look not a gift horse in the mouth.= _Pr._

=Look not mournfully into the past--it comes not back again; wisely improve the present--it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.= _Longfellow._

=Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. / Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span / Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe. / If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.= _George Herbert._

=Look not to what is wanting in any one; consider that rather which still remains to him.= _Goethe._

=Look out for a people entirely destitute of religion. If you find them at all, be assured that they are but few degrees removed from brutes.= _Hume._

=Look round the habitable world, how few / Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.= _Dryden, after Juvenal._

=Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.= _Ham._, i. 1.

=Look through a keyhole, and your eye will be= 5 =sore.= _Pr._

=Look to the players; ... / They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there.= _George Herbert._

=Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Look unto those they call unfortunate; / And, closer viewed, you'll find they are unwise.= _Young._

=Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole= 10 =of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another.= _Jean Paul._

=Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.= _Marcus Aurelius._

=Lookers-on see more than the players.= _Pr._

=Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there each in his department, silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of.= _Carlyle._

=Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.= _Emerson._

=Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth.= 15 _Shakespeare._

=Loop'd and window'd raggedness.= _Lear_, iii. 4.

=Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.= _Pr._

=Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut docti=--We should speak as the populace, think as the learned. _Coke._

=Lord, help me through this warld o' care, / I'm weary sick o't late and air; / Not but I hae a richer share / Than mony ithers; / But why should ae man better fare, / And a' men brithers?= _Burns._

=Lord, keep my memory green!= _Dickens._ 20

=Lord of himself, that heritage of woe.= _Byron._

=Lord of himself, though not of lands; having nothing yet hath all.= _Sir Henry Wotton_ (?).

=Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.= _Smollett._

=Lord of thy presence and no land beside.= _King John_, i. 1.

=Lord, we know what we are, but know not= 25 =what we may be.= _Ham._, iv. 5.

=Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter une expression simple, c'est la marque pour la rejeter=--When a thought is too weak to bear a simple expression, it is a sign that it deserves rejection. _Vauvenargues._

=Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness, and then, / Comes the wreck of all you hope for in the wreck of noble men.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Lose thy fun rather than thy friend.= _Pr._

=Losing the bundles gathering the wisps.= _Gael. Pr._

=Losses are comparative, only imagination= 30 =makes them of any moment.= _Pascal._

=Lost time is never found again.= _Pr._

=Lotis manibus=--With clean-washen hands.

=Loud clamour is always more or less insane.= _Carlyle._

=Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world.= _Chesterfield._

=Loudness is a foe to melody.= _Pr._ 35

=Louer les princes des vertus qu'ils n'ont pas, c'est leur dire impunément des injures=--To praise princes for virtues which they do not possess, is to insult them with impunity. _La Roche._

=Louis ne sut qu'aimer, pardonner et mourir; / Il aurait su régner s'il avait su punir=--Louis (XVI.) knew only how to love, pardon, and die; had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. _Tilly._

=Love abounds in honey and poison.= _Sp. Pr._

=Love accomplishes all things.= _Petrarch._

=Love all, trust a few, / Do wrong to none; be= 40 =able for thine enemy / Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend / Under thy own life's key; be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for speech.= _All's Well_, i. 1.

=Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.= _B. R. Haydon._

=Love and friendship exclude each other.= _Du Cœur._

=Love and gratitude are seldom found in the same breast without impairing each other ... we cannot command both together.= _Goldsmith._

=Love and light winna hide.= _Sc. Pr._

=Love and lordship like not fellowship.= _Pr._ 45

=Love and poverty are hard to hide.= _Pr._

=Love and pride stock Bedlam.= _Pr._

=Love and religion are both stronger than friendship.= _Disraeli._

=Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.= _Fielding._

=Love and the Soul, working together, might= 50 =go on producing Venuses without end, each different, and all beautiful; but divorced and separated, they may continue producing indeed, yet no longer any being, or even thing, truly godlike.= _Ed._

=Love and trust are the only mother-milk of any man's soul.= _Ruskin._

=Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.= _Emerson._

=Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.= _Pr._

=Love at two-and-twenty is a terribly intoxicating draft.= _Ruffini._

=Love betters what is best, / Even here below, but more in heaven above.= _Wordsworth._

=Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing.= _Geibel._

=Love can do much, but duty still more.= _Goethe._

=Love can hope where reason would despair.= 5 _Lyttleton._

=Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love.= _Pr._

=Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it.= _Ward Beecher._

=Love concedes in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil.= _Goethe._

=Love converts the hut into a palace of gold.= _Hölty._

=Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when= 10 =it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness.= _Bovee._

=Love delights to bring her best, / And where love is, that offering evermore is blest.= _Keble._

=Love dies by satiety, and forgetfulness inters it.= _Du Cœur._

=Love divine, all love excelling, / Joy of heaven to earth come down.= _Toplady._

=Love does much, but money does more.= _Pr._

=Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's= 15 =door / Pours in the morning worshipper no more.= _Johnson._

=Love ever flows downward.= _Quoted by Hare._

=Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, / Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.= _Pope._

=Love, friendship, charity are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.

=Love furthers knowledge.= _Pr._

=Love gives itself, and is not bought.= _Longfellow._ 20

=Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books; / But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.

=Love has made its best interpreter a sigh.= _Byron._

=Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself.= _Pascal._

=Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots.= _Goethe._

=Love hath a large mantle.= _Pr._ 25

=Love hides ugliness.= _Gael. Pr._

=Love in the heart is better than honey in the mouth.= _Pr._

=Love is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant--a harpy that devours everything.= _Swift._

=Love is a boy by poets spoiled.= _S. Butler._

=Love is a debt which inclination always pays,= 30 =obligation never.= _Pascal._

=Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.

=Love is a personal debt.= _George Herbert._

=Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.= _Talleyrand._

=Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least. He who is inspired by it in a high degree is inspired by honour in a higher; it never reaches its plenitude of growth and perfection but in the most exalted minds.= _Landor._

=Love is a secret no man knows / Till it within= 35 =his bosom glows.= _Pr._

=Love is a sleep; love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.= _Alfred De Musset._

=Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; / Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: / What is it else? A madness most discreet, / A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 1.

=Love is a spirit all compact of fire; / Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire.= _Shakespeare._

=Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made.= _Sir T. Overbury._

=Love is a sweet idolatry, enslaving all the soul.= 40 _Tupper._

=Love is an exotic of the most delicate constitution.= _Goldsmith._

=Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness.= _Luther._

=Love is as warm among cottars as courtiers.= _Sc. Pr._

=Love is as warm in fustian as in velvet.= _Pr._

=Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty= 45 =follies that themselves commit.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 6.

=Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.= _Emerson._

=Love is deemed the tenderest= (_zärteste_) =of our affections, as even the blind and the deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.= _Platen._

=Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Love is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever wearing into life's dull warp bright gorgeous flowers and scenes Arcadian.= _Longfellow._

=Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as= 50 =fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire.= _Carlyle._

=Love is ever the gift, the sacrifice of self.= _Canon Liddon._

=Love is full of unbefitting strains; / All wanton as a child, skipping and vain; / Formed by the eye, and therefore, like the eye, / Full of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms, / Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll / To every varied object in his glance.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.

=Love is incompatible with fear.= _Pub. Syr._

=Love is indestructible, / Its holy flame for ever burneth; / From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.= _Southey._

=Love is just another name for the inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity.= _Simms._

=Love is kin to duty.= _Lewis Morris._

=Love is life's end--an end, but never ending....= 5 =Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.= _Spenser._

=Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face.= _South._

=Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.= _Scott._

=Love is merely a madness.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.

=Love is mightier than indignation.= _Ward Beecher._

=Love is more pleasing than marriage, because= 10 =romances are more amusing than history.= _Chamfort._

=Love is neither bought nor sold.= _Pr._

=Love is never lasting which flames before it burns.= _Feltham._

=Love is not a fire which can be confined within the breast; everything betrays it; and its fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the more.= _Racine._

=Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity.= _Carlyle._

=Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which= 15 =shows us what is most worthy of regard.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds.= _Shakespeare._

=Love is not to be reason'd down or lost / In high ambition or a thirst of greatness.= _Addison._

=Love is old, old as eternity, but not outworn; with each new being born or to be born.= _Byron._

=Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and reward.= _Emerson._

=Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men,= 20 =therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold.= _Holmes._

=Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.= _Bible._

=Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession.= _Emerson._

=Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Love is the bond which never corrodes.= _Dr. Parker._

=Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness= 25 =of the busy.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death.= _Plato._

=Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, and it is the greatest we can give God.= _Jeremy Taylor._

=Love is the joining of two souls on their way to God.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Love is the master-key that opens every ward of the heart of man.= _J. H. Evans._

=Love is the most easy and agreeable, and= 30 =gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind.= _Goldsmith._

=Love is the mother of love.= _Pr._

=Love is the occupation of an idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.= _Napoleon._

=Love is the only ink which does not fade.= _Dr. Parker._

=Love is the only memory which strengthens with time.= _Dr. Parker._

=Love is vanity, / Selfish in its beginning as its= 35 =end.= _Byron._

=Love knows nothing of labour.= _It. Pr._

=Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic.= _Wm. Penn._

=Love laughs at locksmiths.= _Pr._

=Love lessens the woman's refinement and strengthens the man's.= _Jean Paul._

=Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;= 40 =/ Love laps his wings on either side the heart / ... Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, / So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.= _Tennyson._

=Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow.= _Pr._

=Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; / Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 2.

=Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear.= _La Roche._

=Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger.= _Jean Paul._

=Love likes not shallow mirth.= _Dr. Walter_ 45 _Smith._

=Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; / And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, i. 1.

=Love makes labour light.= _J. G. Holland._

=Love makes obedience lighter than liberty.= _W. R. Alger._

=Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.= _Fr. Pr._

=Love me little, love me long, / Is the burden of= 50 =my song; / Love that is too hot and strong / Burneth soon to waste; / Still I would not have thee cold, / Not too backward or too bold; / Love that lasteth till 'tis old / Fadeth not in haste.= _Old Ballad._

=Love me, love my dog.= _Pr._

=Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and damps each joy he does not yield.= _Lady Dacre._

=Love moderately; long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.

=Love must be as much a light as a flame.= _Thoreau._

=Love must be taken by stratagem, not by open force.= _Goldsmith._

=Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little.= _Hannah More._

=Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him.= _Carlyle._

=Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.= _Bible._

=Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way; /= 5 =God gave them to thee under lock and key.= _George Herbert._

=Love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many.= _W. Allston._

=Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man.= _Talleyrand._

=Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together.= _Carlyle._

=Love of power, merely to make flunkeys come and go for you, is a love, I should think, which enters only into the minds of persons in a very infantine state.= _Carlyle._

=Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere= 10 =to find and value what is good.= _Goethe._

=Love on his lips and hatred in his heart: / His motto--constancy, his creed--to part.= _Byron._

=Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens.= _Jean Paul._

=Love one time layeth burdens, another time giveth wings.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Love ought to raise a low heart and not humble a high one.= _Ariosto._

=Love ower het= (hot) =soon cools.= _Sc. Pr._ 15

=Love prefers twilight to daylight.= _Holmes._

=Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.= _Dryden._

=Love requires not so much proofs as expressions of love.= _Jean Paul._

=Love rules his kingdom without a sword.= _Pr._

=Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, /= 20 =And men below and saints above; / For love is heaven, and heaven is love.= _Scott._

=Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord.= _Pr._

=Love rules without law.= _It. Pr._

=Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object.= _Lavater._

=Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, / And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.= _Pope._

=Love should have some rest and pleasure in= 25 =himself, / Not ever be too curious for a boon, / Too prurient for a proof against the grain / Of him ye say ye love.= _Tennyson._

=Love should not be all on one side.= _Pr._

=Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities of the human race.= _Helps._

=Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when for very speaking the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man.= _Carlyle._

=Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1.

=Love strikes one hour--love. Those never= 30 =loved / Who dream that they loved once.= _Elizabeth B. Browning._

=Love that can flow, and can admit increase, / Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less.= _Suckling._

=Love the good and forgive the bad.= _Gael. Pr._

=Love, the last relay and ultimate outpost of eternity.= _D. G. Rossetti._

=Love the sense of right and wrong confounds; / Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds.= _Dryden._

=Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude.= 35 _Sc. Pr._

=Love thyself, and many will hate thee.= _Anon._

=Love to a yielding heart is a king, but to a resisting is a tyrant.= _Sidney._

=Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done.= _Carlyle._

=Love too late can never glow.= _Keble._

=Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all= 40 =the chords with might; / Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.= _Tennyson._

=Love-verses, writ without any real passion, are the most nauseous of all conceits.= _Shenstone._

=Love waits for love, though the sun be set, / And the stars come out, the dews are wet, / And the night-winds moan.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear!= _Tupper._

=Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity.= _Goldsmith._

=Love which hath ends will have an end.= 45 _Dryden._

=Love, which is only an episode in the life of a man, is the entire history of a woman's life.= _Mme. de Staël._

=Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.= _Emerson._

=Love will creep where it cannot go.= _Pr._

=Love will find its way / Through paths where wolves would fear to prey.= _Byron._

=Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope,= 50 =but not altogether without it.= _Scott._

=Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.= _Mme. de Girardin._

=Love without return is like a question without an answer.= _Ger. Pr._

=Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.= _St. Paul._

=Love works a different way in different minds, / The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds.= _Dryden._

=Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest.= _Keble._

=Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.= _Jesus._

=Love your neighbour, but don't tear down the fence.= _Ger. Pr._

=Love yourself, and in that love / Not unconsidered leave your honour.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 2.

=Love's fire, if it once go out, is hard to kindle.= 5 _Pr._

=Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams / Driving back shadows over lowering hills.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 5.

=Love's not love / When it is mingled with regards that stand / Aloof from the entire point.= _Lear_, i. 1.

=Love's of a strangely open simple kind, / And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind.= _Cowley._

=Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is when love's honey has a dash of gall.= _Herrick._

=Love's plant must be watered with tears and= 10 =tended with care.= _Dan. Pr._

=Love's reasons without reason.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.

=Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.= _Bovee._

=Love's the noblest frailty of the mind.= _Dryden._

=Love's true function in the world is as the regenerator and restorer of social life, the reconciler and uniter of living men.= _Ed._

=Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar= 15 =as a king.= _Decker._

=Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of laborious indigence than the fawning simper of thriving adulation.= _Goldsmith._

=Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force.= _Prof. Drummond._

=Loveliness / Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, / But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.= _Thomson._

=Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.

=Lovers are as punctual as the sun.= _Goethe._ 20

=Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves.= _La Roche._

=Lovers break not hours, / Unless it be to come before their time; / So much they spur their expedition.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 1.

=Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs.= _Pr._

=Lovers= (_Verliebte_) =see only each other in the world, but they forget that the world sees them.= _Platen._

=Lovers' time runs faster than the clock.= 25 _Pr._

=Loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.

=Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest.= _Bailey._

=Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; / But when he once attains the upmost round, / He then unto the ladder turns his back, / Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.

=Loyal à la mort=--Loyal to death. _M._

=Loyal en tout=--Loyal in all. _M._ 30

=Loyal je serai durant ma vie=--I will be loyal during my life. _M._

=Loyauté m'oblige=--Loyalty binds me. _M._

=Loyauté n'a honte=--Loyalty feels no shame. _M._

=Lubrici sunt fortunæ gressus=--The footsteps of fortune are slippery.

=Lubricum linguæ non facile in pœnam est= 35 =trahendum=--A slip of the tongue ought not to be rashly punished. _L._

[Greek: Lychnou arthentos, gynê pasa hê autê]--When the candle is taken away, every woman is alike. _Gr. Pr._

=Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character.= _Cobden._

=Luck is everything in promotion.= _Cervantes._

=Luck is the idol of the idle.= _Pr._

=Luck, mere luck, may make even madness= 40 =wisdom.= _Douglas Jerrold._

=Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it.= _Ger. Pr._

=Lucri bonus est odor ex re / Qualibet=--The smell of gain is good, from whatever it proceeds. _Juv._

=Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum / Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi / Laudat rura sui: mox reficit rates / Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati=--The merchant, dreading the south-west wind wrestling with the Icarian waves, praises retirement and the rural life of his native town, but soon he repairs his shattered bark, incapable of being taught to endure poverty. _Hor._

=Ludere cum sacris=--To trifle with sacred things.

=Ludit in humanis divina potestas rebus, / Et= 45 =certam præsens vix habet hora fidem=--The divine power sports with human affairs so much that we can scarcely be sure of the passing hour. _Ovid._

=Lugete o Veneres Cupidinesque=--Weep, all ye Venuses and Cupids. _Cat._

=Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, / Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; / Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise! / Each stamps its image as the other flies.= _Rogers._

=Lupo agnum eripere postulant=--They insist on snatching the lamb from the wolf. _Plaut._

=Lupo ovem commisisti=--You have put the sheep to the care of the wolf. _Ter._

=Lupus in fabula=--It is the wolf in the story; 50 talking of him, he appeared.

=Lupus non curat numerum (ovum)=--The wolf is not scared by the number of the sheep. _Pr._

=Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem=--The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. _Pr._

=Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti; / Tempus abire tibi est=--Thou hast amused thyself enough, hast eaten and drunk enough; 'tis time for thee to depart. _Hor._

=Lust--hard by fate.= _Milton._

=Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.= _St. Ambrose._

=Lust is an enemy to the purse, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and a mortal bane to all the body.= _Pliny._

=Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, / What most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast / Rushes along, impatient of the course; / Nor hears the rider's call, nor fears the rein.= _Rowe._

=Lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better= 5 =or worse / Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?= _Tennyson._

=Lust und Liebe sind die Fittiche / Zu grossen Thaten=--Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. _Goethe._

=Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but it is a desperate madness when opposed.= _Bp. Hall._

=Lusus naturæ=--A freak of nature.

=Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson.= _Ger. Pr._

=Luther's words are half battles.= _Jean Paul._ 10

=Luxuriæ desunt multa, avaritiæ omnia=--Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. _Pub. Syr._

=Luxuriant animi rebus plerumque secundis; / Nec facile est æqua commoda mente pati=--The feelings generally run riot in prosperity; and to bear good fortune with evenness of mind is no easy task. _Ovid._

=Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.= _Sir G. Mackenzie._

=Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.= _Victor Hugo._

=Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread= 15 =to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.= _H. Home._

=Lydius lapis=--A Lydian or test stone.

=Lying and stealing live next door to each other.= _Pr._

=Lying is a breach of promise; for whoever seriously addresses his discourse to another tacitly promises to speak the truth, because he knows the truth is expected.= _Paley._

=Lying is a disgraceful vice, "affording testimony," as Plutarch says, "that one first despises God and then fears men."= _Montaigne._

=Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of= 20 =the force of truth.= _Hazlitt._

=Lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord.= _Bible._

=Lying may be pernicious in its general tendency, and therefore criminal, though it produce no particular or visible mischief to any one.= _Paley._

=Lying pays no tax.= _Pr._

=Lying rides on debt's back.= _Pr._

=Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers= 25 =nous=--Lynx-eyed to our neighbours, and mole-eyed to ourselves. _La Fontaine._

=Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.= _Heine._