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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…