Careful Words

left (n.)

left (adv.)

left (adj.)

  There be of them that have left a name behind them.

Old Testament: Ecclesiasticus xliv. 8.

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd!

How sweet their memory still!

But they have left an aching void

The world can never fill.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Walking with God.

'T is the last rose of summer,

Left blooming alone.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): The Last Rose of Summer.

And binding Nature fast in fate,

Left free the human will.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Universal Prayer. Stanza 3.

  When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

New Testament: Matthew vi. 3.

He is the half part of a blessed man,

Left to be finished by such as she;

And she a fair divided excellence,

Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.

  We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Book Of Common Prayer: Morning Prayer.

What we gave, we have;

What we spent, we had;

What we left, we lost.