Chapter LESSON to LIFE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

LESSON to LIFE

LESSON.—The living lesson stole into the heart,
With more prevailing force than dwells in words.

Thomson.—Liberty, Part II.

LET.—Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (Hamlet to his Uncle, who begins to feel the offence of the play.)

Let’s meet, and either do or die!

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Island Princess.

Let us do or die!

Burns.—Scots wha hae, Verse 6.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

Longfellow.—Psalm of Life, Verse last.

LEVITY.—A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Young.—Pref. to Night VII.

LIAR.—Thou liar of the first magnitude.

Congreve.—Love for Love, Act II. Scene 5.

LIBEL.—They make a libel, which he made a play.

Ben Jonson.—Prol. to the Silent Woman.

Convey a libel in a frown,
And wink a reputation down.

Swift.—Journal of a Modern Lady.

LIBERTY.—Thou gav’st them more than life,
Giving what, lost, makes life not worth the keeping.

Roger’s Italy.—Genoa, Line 25.

The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

Dryden.—Palamon and Arcite, Book II. Line 291.

LIBERTY.—When liberty is gone,
Life grows insipid and has lost its relish.

Addison.—Cato, Act II.

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

Ibid.

I would not my unhoused free condition
Put into circumscription and confine
For the sea’s worth.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 2. (Othello to Iago.)