Quotations Page 'L'

Consider the lilies of the fie3ld, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin ! And yet I saw unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

- New Testament, Mathew -

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Now he belongs to the ages. His heart was great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of wrong.

- Emarson -

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We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.

- J.S. Gibbons -

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Lips, however rosy, must be fed.

- Cheals -

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Give us grace to listen well.

-Keble, Palm Sunday -

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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

- Oskcar Wilde, The Deccay of Lying -

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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

- Carlyle -

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Literature - the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

- Lord Morley -

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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

- Thorn Ton Wilder, Literature -

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Plain living and high thinking are no more.

- Wordsworth -

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He wons here logic of the heart, and reason of unreason.

- Messinger -

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Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and that it is which crowns a welcome.

- Messinger -

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You cram these words into my ears against the stomach of my sense.

- Shakespeare -

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The fear of Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

- Old Testament -

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The Lord is my light and my salvation.

- Old Testament, Psalms -

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The man who can fight to Heaven's one height is the man who can fight when he's losing.

- Service -

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Why do you make us love your godly gift. And snatch them straightaway ?

- Shakespeare -

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Wise men never sit and wail their loss.

- Shakespeare -

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Love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

- Druden, Indian Emperor -

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