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

Life's no resting, but a moving; / Let thy life be deed on deed. Goethe.

Light another's candle, but don't put out your 5 own. Pr.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Light burdens carried far grow heavy. Fr. and Ger. Pr.

Light cares (or griefs) speak; great ones are dumb. Sen.

Light flashes in the gloomiest sky, / And music in the dullest plain. Keble.

Light gains make heavy purses, because they 10 come thick, whereas the great come but now and then. Bacon.

Light is, as it were, a divine humidity. Joubert.

Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. St. John.

Light is coming into the world; men love not darkness; they do love light. Carlyle.