H Quotes
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“He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.”
“He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combination, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish.”
Source: Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia
“He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”
“He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.”
Source: Machiavelli, More & Luther
“He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.”
“He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.”
Source: Modern Painters
“He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”
Source: Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“He who has overcome worldly desires attains the Supreme Being in the higher consciousness.”
“He who has patience, evidently what he pursues must ensue, and come to pass. To every man, this is what he must cultivate above all other things.”
Source: The Sad Artist and Other Fairytales
“He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.”
“He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.”
“He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.”
“He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.”
Source: Language and Silence
“He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.”
“He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita: God talks with Arjuna : royal science of God realization
“He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.”
“He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.”
“He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.”
“He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.”
Source: Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
“He who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.”
Source: The Prince
“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
“He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.”
“He who has resolved once that 'I will certainly get rid of the mistakes that are left in me', can become Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Soul).”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.”
“He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.”
“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.”
Source: Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth
“He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“He who has self-confidence inspires others to have confidence in him and in themselves.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“He who has slaked his thirst, immediately turns his back on the well, no longer needing it. When dependence disappears, so does civility and decency, and then respect.”
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works
“He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!”
“He who has strength must serve in his capacity.”
“He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.”
Source: Collected Poems
“He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.”
“He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams!”
“He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.”
“He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.”
“He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.”
“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”
“He who has the gold makes the rules.”
“He who has the greatest peace of mind is certainly the richest of the world!”
“He who has the heart for war, has no heart left for love.”
“He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.”
“He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.”
“He who has the obeisance for the battle shall have the courage to win ,solitary, the war.”
“He who has the pepper may season as he lists.”
“He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.”