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 this be an example for the acquisition of 10 all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. Hitopadesa.

Let those have night that love the night. Quarles.

Let those who believe in immortality enjoy their belief in silence, and give themselves no airs about it. Goethe.

Let those who hope for brighter shores no more, / Not mourn, but turning inland, bravely seek / What hidden wealth redeems the shapeless shore. Eugene Lee Hamilton.

Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate / Open for thee, or both may come too late. George Herbert.

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and 15 the second will be what thou wilt. Ben. Franklin.

Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway. Twelfth Night, iv. 1.

Let thy great deeds force fate to change her mind; / He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind. Dryden.

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where, / And when, and how thy business may be done, / Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, / Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. George Herbert.

Let thy mind's sweetness have his operation / Upon thy body, clothes, and habitation. George Herbert.