Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Le vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemblable—The true is not always verisimilar. Fr. Pr.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemble—What is true may sometimes seem unlike truth. Boileau.

Lead, kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom, / Lead thou me on. Newman.

Lead thine own captivity captive, and be Cæsar within thyself. Sir Thomas Browne.

Leal heart leed never. Sc. Pr. 35

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. Pr.

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

Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind! Mer. of Ven., ii. 6.

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

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