H Quotes
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“He that takes a wife, takes care”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”
“He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.”
“He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.”
Source: Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions
“He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
[He that tells a secret is another's servant.]”
Source: The Works of the Rev. George Hebert
“He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”
Source: Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
“He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.”
“He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
“He that travels much knows much.”
“He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.”
“He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.”
Source: Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse on Sepulchral Urns
“He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.”
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
“He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.”
“He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter
“He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.”
“He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.”
“He that walks into the political marsh cannot come out with polished boots.”
“He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.”
“He that wants to reach the top won’t stop until he has.”
“He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.”
“He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.”
“He that will be served must bee patient.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“He that will be surety, shall pay.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.”
“He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.”
“He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
“He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.”
“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.”
Source: The Plays of Shakspeare
“He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding
“He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.”
“He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
“He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.”
Source: A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie
“He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
[He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]”
“He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.”
Source: Diary and Correspondence: The Diary deciphered by the K. J. Smith from the original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes