Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
who cannot profit you as a friend may at any time injure you as an enemy. Gellert.
He who carries his heart on his tongue runs 40 the risk of expectorating it. Saar.
He who ceases to grow greater grows smaller. Amiel.
He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper. Pr.
He who coldly lives to himself and his own will may gratify many a wish, but he who strives to guide others well must be able to dispense with much. Goethe.
He who combines every defect will be more likely to find favour in the world than the man who is possessed of every virtue. Fr. Pr.
He who comes up to his own ideal of greatness 45 must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. Hazlitt.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato.
He who conforms to the rule which the genius of the human understanding whispers secretly in the ear of every new-born being, viz., to test action by thought and thought by action, cannot err; and if he errs, he will soon find himself again in the right way. Goethe.
He who considers too much will accomplish little. Schiller.
He who deals with honey will sometimes be licking his fingers. Pr.
He who despises mankind will never get the 50 best out of either others or himself. Tocqueville.
He who did well in war just earns the right / To begin doing well in peace. Browning.
He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled; he who does a mean deed, is by the action itself contracted. Emerson.
He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven. Hare.
He who does me good teaches me to be good. Pr.
He who does not advance falls backward. 5 Amiel.
He who does not expect a million of readers should not write a line. Goethe.
He who does not help us at the needful moment never helps; he who does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels. Goethe.
He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. Wm. Blake.
He who does not know foreign languages knows nothing of his own. Goethe.
He who does not lose his wits over certain 10 matters has none to lose. Lessing.
He who does not think too highly of himself is more than he thinks. Goethe.
He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself. Goethe.
He who doth not speak an unkind word to his fellow-creatures is master of the whole world to the extremities of the ocean. Hitopadesa.
He who dwells in temporary semblances and does not penetrate into the eternal substance, will not answer the sphinx-riddle of to-day or of any day. Carlyle.
He who enquires into a matter has often 15 found more at a glance than he wished to find. Lessing.
He who entereth uncalled for, unquestioned speaketh much, and regardeth himself with satisfaction, to his prince appeareth one of a weak judgment. Hitopadesa.
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions he draws from them or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher. Bulwer.
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. Epictetus.
He who fears not death fears not threats. Corneille.
He who fears nothing is not less powerful than 20 he whom all fear. Schiller.
He who feeds the ravens / Will give His children bread. Cowper.
He who feels he is right is stronger than king's hosts; he who doubts he is not right has no strength whatever. Carlyle.
He who finds a God in the physical world will also find one in the moral, which is History. Jean Paul.
He who formeth a connection with an honest man from his love of truth, will not suffer thereby. Hitopadesa.
He who gives up the smallest part of a secret 25 has the rest no longer in his power. Jean Paul.
He who goes alone may start to-day; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Thoreau.
He who has a bonnie wife needs mair than twa een. Sc. Pr.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, / And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ali Ben Abu Saleb
"He who has been born has been a first man," has had lying before his young eyes, and as yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the eyes of Adam himself. Carlyle.
He who has been once very foolish will never 30 be very wise. Montaigne.
He who has done enough for the welfare (den Besten) of his own time has lived for all times. Schiller.
He who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joubert.
He who has less than he desires should know that he has more than he deserves. Lichtenberg.
He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. Boiste.
He who has love in his heart has spurs in his 35 heels. Pr.
He who has made no mistakes in war has never made war. Turenne.
He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow. P. J. Bailey.
He who has no ear for poetry is a barbarian, be he who he may. Goethe.
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. Klopstock.
He who has no passions has no principle, nor 40 motive to act. Helvetius.
He who has no vision of Eternity will never get a true hold of Time. Carlyle.
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. W. R. Alger.
He who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first towards the laws, and next towards our elders. Plato.
He who has not known poverty, sorrow, contradiction, and the rest, and learned from them the priceless lessons they have to teach, has missed a good opportunity of schooling. Carlyle.
He who has not the weakness of friendship 45 has not the strength. Joubert.
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