Prosperity lets go the bridle. [ George Herbert ]
Now it is the time of night,
That the graves, all gaping wide.
Every one lets forth its sprite.
In the church-way paths to glide. [ William Shakespeare ]
No man can thrive unless his wife lets him. [ Proverb ]
I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated,
Especially since it lives and lets me live. [ Goethe ]
They talk of short-lived pleasures - be it so -
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. [ Bryant ]
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. [ Waller ]
Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. [ Madame Necker ]
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live. [ Goethe ]
Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself nor lets any body else. [ Proverb ]
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. [ Henry Ward Beechen ]
He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often yet never catch it again. [ Proverb ]
Pity is sworn servant unto love; and of this be sure, wherever it begins to make the way, it lets the master in. [ Daniel ]
Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ Carlyle ]
Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. [ Thoreau ]
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely wicked; but grows so, either as he holds himself up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Who is there that in logical words can express the affect that music has upon us? A kind of unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ T. Carlyle ]
Laissez faire, the "let alone" principle, is, in all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone, if he lets his fellow-men alone, if he lets his own soul alone. [ John Ruskin ]
He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. [ Steele ]
It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]