H Quotes
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“He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.”
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.”
“He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream.”
“He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.”
“He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.”
Source: The Trial and Triumph of Faith
“He who earns and does not invest will have to work for the rest of his life.”
“He who eats alone chokes alone.”
“He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.”
“He who eats my bread, does my will.”
“He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.”
“He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.”
“He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“He, who endlessly combated his family's reliance on 'Mexican time.' They drove him crazy. If a dinner gathering was announced for six o'clock, he could be sure it wouldn't start until nine. They'd walk in as if they were early. Or worse, they'd say 'What?' as if he were the one with a problem. You know you're Mexican when lunch doesn't show up till ten at night.”
Source: The House of Broken Angels
“He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.”
“He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.”
“He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.”
“He who escaped death must have a missed call from heaven.”
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”
“He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.”
“He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.”
“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)
“He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.”
Source: The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments
“He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.”
“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler
“He who expects not to achieve will never do so.”
“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.”
“He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.”
Source: The Montessori Method
“He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention”
“He who faces no calamity gains no courage.”
“He who fails to plan is planning to fail.”
“He who fails to plan, plans to fail.”
Source: Where We Belong: A Novel
“He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius
“He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail”
“He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.”
“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
“He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.”
“He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.”
Source: Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 86)
“He who fear alcohol must also fear ANGER, because anger is more powerful and dangerous than alcohol.”
“He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.”
“He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.”
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
“He who fears dangers will not perish by them.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life: