H Quotes
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“He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me.”
Source: The worm Ouroboros
“He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.”
Source: The worm Ouroboros: a romance
“He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.”
“He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”
“He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.”
“He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.”
Source: Essays [tr. by Cotton
“He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A New Edition in Twelve Volumes, to which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Containing Adventurer and Rasselas
“He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.”
“He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.”
Source: The complete English works
“He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.”
Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political
“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”
“He that gives me small gifts would have me live.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“He that gives quickly gives twice.”
“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.”
“He that goeth farre hath many encounters.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.”
Source: Selected essays
“He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.”
Source: Selected essays
“He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.”
“He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.”
Source: King Lear: Third Series
“He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.”
“He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.”
“He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards
“He that has done nothing has known nothing.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
Source: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.”
Source: The Virginians: Christie's Collections
“He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.”
“He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.”
“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
“He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.”
“He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.”
Source: Triumphant Certainties: And Other Sermons
“He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.”
“He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.”
“He that has many friends, has no friends.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.”
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
“He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.”
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition
“He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.”
Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.”
Source: The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State
“He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.”
Source: Sermons Attributed to Samuel Johnson: And Left for Publication by John Taylor
“He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.”
“He that has patience may compass anything.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel
“He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom