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 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.