Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
Johnson.
He lies there who never feared the face of man. The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave.
He life's war knows / Whom all his passions 20 follow as he goes. George Herbert.
He little merits bliss who others can annoy. Thomson.
He lives twice who can at once employ / The present well and e'en the past enjoy. Pope.
He lives who lives to God alone, / And all are dead beside; / For other source than God is none / Whence life can be supplied. Cowper.
He looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man. Longfellow.
He loses his thanks who promises and delays. 25 Pr.
He loves but lightly who his love can tell. Petrarch.
He makes no friend who never made a foe. Tennyson.
He (your Father) maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Jesus.
He maun lout (stoop) that has a laigh (low) door. Sc. Pr.
He may rate himself a happy man who lives 30 remote from the gods of this world. Goethe.
Hé, mon ami, tire-moi du danger; tu feras après ta harangue—Hey! my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. La Fontaine.
He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. P. J. Bailey.
He must be a good shot who always hits the mark. Dut. Pr.
He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly. Hare.
He must cry loud who would frighten the devil. 35 Dan. Pr.
He must needs go that the devil drives. Pr.
He must stand high who would see his destiny to the end. Dan. Pr.
He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful. Johnson.
He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil. Pr.
He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper 40 light. Dryden.
He ne'er made a gude darg (day's work) wha gaed (went) grumbling about it. Sc. Pr.
He never is crowned / With immortality, who fears to follow / Where airy voices lead. Keats.
He never knew pain who never felt the pangs of love. Platen.
He never lees (lies) but when the holland's (holly's) green, i.e., always. Sc. Pr.
He never yet stood sure that stands secure. 45 Quarles.
He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it. Corneille.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Cic.
He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living peace. Ruskin.
He only is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed. Lavater.
He only is exempt from failures who makes 50 no efforts. Whately.
He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best. R. D. Hitchcock.
He only is rich who owns the day. Emerson.
He only who forgets to hoard has learned to live. Keble.
He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them. Cic.
He paidles a guid deal in the water, but he 55 tak's care no to wet his feet. Sc. Pr.
He prayeth best who loveth best / All things, both great and small; / For the dear Lord who loveth us, / He made and loveth all. Coleridge.
He preaches well who lives well. Sp. Pr.
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. Bovee.
He rais'd a mortal to the skies, / She drew an angel down. Dryden.
He raises not himself up whom God casts down. Goethe.
He reads much: / He is a great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, / As thou dost, Anthony; he hears no music: / Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort / As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit / That could be moved to smile at anything. / Such men as he be never at heart's ease / Whiles they behold a greater than themselves; / And therefore are they very dangerous. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
He rideth easily enough whom the grace of 5 God carrieth. Thomas à Kempis.
He runs far who never turns. It. Pr.
He scarce is knight, yea, but half-man, nor meet / To fight for gentle damsel, he who lets / His heart be stirr'd with any foolish heat / At any gentle damsel's waywardness. Tennyson.
He serves his party best who serves his country best. R. B. Hayes.
He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide and define. Quoted by Emerson.
He shone with the greater splendour because 10 he was not seen. Tac.
He sins as much who holds the sack as he who puts into it. Fr. Pr.
He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake, i.e., is wide awake, though pretending not to see. Sc. Pr.
He spends best that spares to spend again. Pr.
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. Lavater.
He swallows the egg and gives away the shell 15 in alms. Ger. Pr.
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. Bible.
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. Colton.
He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never either be, or know, or have. It. Pr.
He that believeth shall not make haste. Bible.
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