H Quotes
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“He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.”
“He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.”
Source: Stories and Legends
“He who stumbles and grumbles, is displaying a crumbled reasoning.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.”
“He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.”
“He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.”
“He who suffers, remembers.”
“He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.”
“He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon.”
Source: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Tale. Edited With Introd. and Notes by A.W. Pollard
“He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“He who surrenders himself to God, he attains salvation in the knowledge of the Self.”
“He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.”
“He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.”
“He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.”
Source: Works
“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
“He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.”
“He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.”
“He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.”
Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“He who takes whatever God sends with smile has learned lifes hardest lesson.”
“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.”
Source: Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation
“He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“He who talks much cannot always talk well.
[It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]”
“He who talks much cannot talk well.”
“He who talks with his actions will achieve much more than he who talks with his mouth.”
“He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.”
Source: The works of Daniel Webster
“He who tastes not, knows not.”
“He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.”
Source: A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children
“He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.”
“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“He who tells the truth says almost nothing.”
“He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
Against temptation.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
“He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.”
“He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.”
“He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.”
“He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.”
Source: Great truths
“He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him?”
“He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.”
Source: Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works
“he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors”
“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.”
Source: ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more
“He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“He who thinks he knows it all, knows very little." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio”
“He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.”
Source: Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You
“He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.”
Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
“He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.”
“He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.”
“He who thinks in a sunny garden about the miners who work in the dark galleries of mines will understand so perfectly how beautiful and how hard life is!”