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

Lord of himself, that heritage of woe. Byron.

Lord of himself, though not of lands; having nothing yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton (?).

Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Smollett.

Lord of thy presence and no land beside. King John, i. 1.

Lord, we know what we are, but know not 25 what we may be. Ham., iv. 5.

Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter une expression simple, c'est la marque pour la rejeter—When a thought is too weak to bear a simple expression, it is a sign that it deserves rejection. Vauvenargues.

Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness, and then, / Comes the wreck of all you hope for in the wreck of noble men. Dr. Walter Smith.

Lose thy fun rather than thy friend. Pr.

Losing the bundles gathering the wisps. Gael. Pr.

Losses are comparative, only imagination 30 makes them of any moment. Pascal.