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 your reason with your choler question.... To climb steep hills / Requires slow pace at first. Hen. VIII., i. 1.

Let your rule in reference to your social sentiments be simply this; pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as playing each his part aptly in the divine symphony of the universe. Prof. Blackie.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man. St. Paul.

Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes. 15 Pr.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; / Who covets more is evermore a slave. Herrick.

Let's not unman each other—part at once; / All farewells should be sudden when for ever, / Else they make an eternity of moments, / And clog the last sad sands of life with tears. Byron.

Let's take the instant by the forward top; / For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees / Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time / Steals ere we can effect them. All's Well, v. 3.

Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop, not to out-sport discretion. Othello, ii. 3.

Letters may be always made out of the books 20 of the morning or talk of the evening. Johnson.

Letters of mere compliment, congratulation, or affected condolence, which have cost the authors most labour in composing, never fail of being the most disagreeable and insipid to the readers. Blair.