H Quotes
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“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.”
“He who is penitent is almost innocent.”
“He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
“He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.”
“He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.”
“He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.”
“He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.”
“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”
“He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.”
Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
“He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.”
“He who is ready to die, lives”
“He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.”
“He who is really kind, can never be unhappy”
“He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.”
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.”
“He who is resolute conquers grief.”
“He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another.”
“He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.”
Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion
“He who is served is limited in his independence.”
“He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.”
“He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.”
“He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.”
“He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.”
Source: The Story of Gösta Berling
“He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.”
“He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.”
“He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”
Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including
“He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.”
“He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet.”
Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
Source: Stray Birds
“He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“He who is too well off is always longing for something new.”
Source: Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
“He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.”
“He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.”
Source: A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings
“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
Source: Bureaucracy
“He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.”
“He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.”
“He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III
“He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.”
“He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777
“He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.”
“He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.”
Source: Art of Money Getting
“He who is without hope is also without fear.
- On Psychology”
Source: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
“He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.”
Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS
“He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.”
Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward