Quotations Page 'L'
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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It's love, that makes the world go ground.
- Anon -
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Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
- Tagore, Stray Birds -
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He who does not come to the temple gate, he who loves reaches the shrine.
- Tagore, Fireflies -
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Love is the bussiness of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
- Bulwar Lytton, Rienzi -
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Love gives itself; it is not brought.
- Longfellow -
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