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 us endeavour to see things as they are, 30 and then inquire whether we ought to complain. Johnson.

Let us enjoy the cloven flame whilst it glows on our walls. Emerson.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. Victor Hugo.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. Lincoln.

Let us have the crisis; we shall either have death or the cure. Carlyle.

Let us know what to love, and we shall know 35 also what to reject; what to affirm, and we shall know also what to deny; but it is dangerous to begin with denial and fatal to end with it. Carlyle.

Let us learn upon earth those things that can call us to heaven. St. Jerome.

Let us leave the question of origins to those who busy themselves with insoluble problems, and have nothing better to do. Goethe.

Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life. Sen.

Let us march intrepidly wherever we are led by the course of human accidents. Where-ever they lead us, on what coasts soever we are thrown by them, we shall not find ourselves absolutely strangers. Bolingbroke.