H Quotes
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“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.”
“He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.”
Source: Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France
“He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.”
“He who would travel happy must travel lite.”
“He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.”
“He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.”
Source: Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)
“He who writes badly thinks badly”
Source: A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters: Intended for the Use of Schools and of Young Persons in General; But More Especially for the Use of Soldiers, Sailors, Apprentices, and Plough-boys. To which are Added Six Lessons, Intended to Prevent Statesmen from Using False Grammar and from Writing in an Awkward Manner
“He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.”
Source: The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer
“He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?”
Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.”
“He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.”
Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
“He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera.... This leads to the paradox that the more people shoot photographs, the less they are capable of deciphering them.”
Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography
“He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.”
“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.”
“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton”
“He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.”
“He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.”
“He who wrongs one threatens many.”
“He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.”
“He who wrote the script of your life knows exactly how it should play out. Pray and ask Him to reveal every line, so that you can follow it in real time and not waste time.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.”
“He who's never loved cannot be good.”
“He who, being bold
For life to come, is false to the past sweet
Of mortal life, hath killed the world above.
For why to live again if not to meet?
And why to meet if not to meet in love?
And why in love if not in that dear love of old?”
“He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.”
Source: Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha
“He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.”
“He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.”
“He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.”
“He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.”
“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.”
“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”
“He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.”
“He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.”
“He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.”
Source: The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata
“He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.”
Source: On the heights: a novel
“He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.”
“He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.”
“He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.”
“He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.”
“He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well:
What they that choose their God do, who can tell?”
“He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.”
“He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.”
“He whom God loveth, He beateth the hell out of.”
“He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”
Source: Symposium and Phaedrus
“He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.”
Source: The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates
“He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.”
“He whom nature thus bereaves,
Is ever fancy's favourite child;
For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.”
“He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor