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

Let anger's fire be slow to burn. Pr.

Let another do what thou wouldst do. Pr.

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

Let another's shipwreck be your beacon. Pr.

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

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

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

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

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

Let charity be warm if the weather be cold. 30 Pr.