The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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37 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Labor

Labor: Such hath it been shall be-beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

Language

Language: I have had my labour for my travail.

Laughter

Laughter: We must laugh before we are happy, for we die before we laugh at all. fear we die before we laugh at all.

Learning

Learning: The green retreats Of Academus.

Leisure

Leisure: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the…

Liberality

Liberality: He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance, But never out of judgment.

Liberty

Liberty: A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Libraries

Libraries: The richest minds need not large libraries.

Life

Life: Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

Light

Light: Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, one e'er…

Linguists

Linguists: Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Listening

Listening: But yet she listen'd-'tis enough- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, And one refusal no…

Literature

Literature: Literary Men are * * * a perpetual priesthood.

Loss

Loss: Losers must have leave to speak.

Love

Love: Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw And pined his loss.

Loyalty

Loyalty: O, rank is good, and gold is fair, And high and low mate ill; But love has never known a law Beyond its own sweet will!

Luck

Luck: O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But…

Luxury

Luxury: "Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.

Libanius

Libanius: Midnight Oil. и. Used by COWPER, LLOYD, QUARLES, SHENSTONE, and others. Moche Crye and no Wull.

Longinus

Longinus: NAPOLEON I. to DE PRADT at Warsaw. See Histoire de l'Ambassade dans le Grande Duché de Vasovie (1812).

Livy

Livy: Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

Lxii

Lxii: Turpe est aliud loqui, aliud sentire: quanto turpius aliud scribere, aliud sentire. It is dishonorable to say one thing and think…

Lix

Lix: Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis. Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

Lxxxiii

Lxxxiii: Diis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens Consilio punire potest. He is next to the gods whom reason…

Law

Law: Quid leges sine moribus Vanæ proficiunt? Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immorality?

Lying

Lying: Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in præcipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere. So near is falsehood to truth that a…

Lxxiv

Lxxiv: Unum est levamentum malorum pati et necessitatibus suis obsequi. One alleviation in misfortune is to endure and submit to necessity.

Lxxvi

Lxxvi: Dictum sapienti sat est. A word to the wise is sufficient.

Leibnitz

Leibnitz: Etwas fürchten und hoffen und sorgen, Muss der Mensch für den kommenden Mor gen. Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for…

Louis Philippe

Louis Philippe: La loi permet souvent ce que défend l'honneur. The law often allows what honor forbids.

Latin

Latin: Appetitus rationi pareat. Let the appetite be obedient to reason.

Land, Dr

Land, Dr: 312 LANDON, LETITIA E., poet, ENGLAND, 1802-1839 222 231 244 248 565 LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE, author ENGLAND, 1775-1864 334 409 460…

Leibnitz, Baron Gottfried Wil

Leibnitz, Baron Gottfried Wil: HELM, philosopher and mathematician...... GERMANY, 1646-1716 769 LEIGH, HENRY S., author and dramatist…

Lisle, Claude Joseph Rouget De

Lisle, Claude Joseph Rouget De: see ROUGET. LIVY, TITUS, historian.. PADUA, B.C. 59-A.D. 17 503 653 675 680 683 685 688 689 694 695 696 698…

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: poet and scholar (quotations marked in concordance with sign?)........ UNITED STATES, 1807-1882 NAMES…

Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus

Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus: philosophical poet, ITALY, B. C., about 96-55 21 689 699 702 706 708 712 713 724 726 727 732 737 738 741…

Lytton, Lord Edward, Robert Bul

Lytton, Lord Edward, Robert Bul: WER, "Owen Meredith," poet, ENGLAND, 1831-1891 10 13 29 70 72 75 81 87 NAMES, NATIVITY, ETC., OF QUOTED…

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