L Quotes
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“Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
Source: The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)
“Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.”
“Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
“Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass him about! Let no Christian who sins in the dark think that he is unobserved. He is compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses! Assuredly in Heaven they know what goes on on earth.”
Source: Tears in Heaven
“Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.”
Source: The Dead of Night
“Let no such man be trusted.”
“Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926
“Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.”
“Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.”
“Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Let no-one define how you see yourself...save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are. But see yourself through your own eyes, and you'll be left to question, and to doubt, subject to the whims and wishes of others who will not have your best at heart.”
Source: A Lasting Impression (A Belmont Mansion Novel Book #1)
“Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.”
“Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.”
Source: The dawn is at hand: selected poems
“Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.”
“Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.”
“Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.”
“Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.”
“Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.”
“Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.”
“Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.”
“Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office
“Let none of those naysayers stop you from listening to what you love. If they don't leave you alone, you can crank up the volume and make their ears bleed.”
“Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.”
“Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual seed. May each of you eagerly accept the celestial seed, the word of salvation (cf. Lk. 8:11), and by your own efforts bring it to perfection as a heavenly work and fruit pleasing to God. Let no one make a beginning of a good work which brings no fruit to perfection (cf. Lk. 8:14), nor declare his faith in Christ only with His tongue.”
“Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.”
“Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.”
Source: Shakspeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice: with intr. remarks and notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter
“Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!”
“Let none say, I will not drinke water.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.”
Source: DON JUAN
“Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.”
“Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we have the means for becoming altogether holy in our walk and conversation. What dungeon is there that can shut us out from this? Only let us use the present location and means faithfully and truly, taking them from God's hand, and we shall find him able to free us from all that is really a hindrance. Let us each one desire to be a saint in his own place and calling, instead of building 'castles in the air' of future holiness.”
“Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]”
“Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.”
“Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...”
“Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862
“Let not a man's self be to him all in all.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.”
“Let not a single soul discharge you, because we are a group of beautiful people...and you two are richer, with greater potential than this soil.”
Source: Waiting for Regina
“Let not a woman’s voice
Be loud in council! for the things without,
A man must care; let women keep within—
Even then is mischief all too probable!
Hear ye? or speak I to unheeding ears?”
Source: The Seven Against Thebes
“Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.”
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject”
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
“Let not death, nor the graveyard overcome you with fear, for every seed buried in its cold ground, resurrects forth anew, into a blossomed life.”
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
“Let not fate tarry on you.
Seize it before it carries you.”
Source: The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses
“Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy