H Quotes
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“He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
“He who never says "no" is no true man.”
“He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.”
“He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.”
Source: Essays
“He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.”
“He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.”
“He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.”
Source: Through Night to Morning
“He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.”
“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”
“He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.”
“He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.”
“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”
“He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.”
Source: Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.
“He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven”
Source: Thirukkural
“He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.”
“He who once created all the beauty you see every morning from the voided chaos is beginning to unvoid your every mourning.”
Source: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy's Demise
“He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels
“He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison. (Victor Hugo)
Not being heard is no reason for silence. (Victor Hugo)”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
“He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.”
“He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.”
“He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.”
“He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves”
“He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.”
“He who pardons easily invites offense.”
“He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.”
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.”
“He who pays the piper can call the tunes.”
“He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives.”
“He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.”
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”
Source: The Essential Jefferson
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“He who perpetrates an outrage may well be quick to forget what he has done. But they who have suffered at his hands are justified at least in remembering the wrongs he has done them.”
Source: The Crimes of Love
“He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way.”~ Amunhotep El Bey”
Source: The Quotations Book of life and Death
“He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.”
“He who plants a tree is a servant of God.”
Source: The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5: Frontier Stories
“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”
“He who plants kindness gathers love.”
“He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.”
“He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.”
Source: Aesop in the afternoon
“He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.”
Source: The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu
“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
“He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.”
“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.”
“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel