H Quotes
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“He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.”
Source: Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book
“He that burnes most shines most.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“He that buys land buys many stones,
He that buys flesh buys many bones,
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.”
Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases
“He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.”
“He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.”
Source: The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin
“He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.”
“He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.”
“He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.”
“He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.”
“He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“He that can milk the cow and plough the furrow before talking wisdom with the Lord is indeed a man of special gifts”
Source: The Empress:
“He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.”
Source: The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale
“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 60: Sermons 3387-3439
“He that can work is born to be king of something.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one”
Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases
“He that cannot cast off a possession has become the possessed”
“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”
“He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.”
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“He that cannot paint must grind the colors.”
“He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.”
Source: The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh
“He that cannot reason is a fool.”
Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”
Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
“He that causes injury injured himself.”
“He that chastens one, chastens 20.”
Source: The complete English works
“He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.”
“He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.”
Source: The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes
“He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Walter Scott
“He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. George Hebert
“He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.”
“He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.”
“He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.”
Source: The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family
“He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.”
Source: Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series
“He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
[He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]”
“He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.”
“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.”
“He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction.”
Source: Works
“He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.”
“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: An essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by A. Murphy] Poems.- v. 2-4. The rambler.- v. 5. The idler. History of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia.- v. 6-8. The lives of the English poets.- v. 9. Lives of eminent persons. Letters, selected from the collection of Mrs. Piozzi and others. Prayers and meditations.- v. 10. Philological tracts, &c.- v. 11. Miscellaneous tracts, &c. Dedications. Reviews and criticisms. Tales of imagination. The adventurers.-
“He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.”
Source: The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...
“He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ”
“He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.”
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections
“He that contemplates hath a day without night.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert