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 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.