Quotations Page 'L'

And when we think we lead we most are led.

- Byrron -

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A little learning is a dangerous thing :Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :

- Pope, Essay on Criticism -

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Learning makes most men more stupid and foolish than they are by nature.

- Schopehauer, Thinking of Oneself -

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It is always in season for old man to learn.

- Aeschylus -

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A reformer who if enraged because his message is not accepted, must retire to the forest to learn how to watch, wait and pray.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

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Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

- Dr.N.Howe -

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Days of respite are golden days.

- South -

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A poor life this, if full of care, We have no time to stand and care.

- W.H.Davies, Leisure -

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Leisure in its activity is work.The stillness of the sea stirs in waves.

- Tagore, Stray Birds -

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Very often he that his money lends, Loses both his gold and his friends.

- C.H. Spurgeor, John Ploughman -

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Neither a borrower nor lender be :For loan loses both itself and friend.

- Shakespeare -

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Letter-writing : but the delightful way of wasting time.

- Viscount Morley, Life of Geo Eliot -

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The letter killeth; but the spirit giveth life.

- New Testament, Corinthanis -

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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are, in a manner, brought together.

- Seneca -

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Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

- Johnson, Remark -

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This is the punishment of a liar : he is not believed even when he speaks the truth.

- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin -

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It often happens that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work and there is no further occasion for it.

- Swift, Examiner -

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

- Addison, Cato -

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Burn the liberties, for their value it is this one book.

- Caliph Omer -

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