Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato; the only good belonging to him is underground. Sir T. Overbury.
He who has published an injurious book sins in his very grave, corrupts others while he is rotting himself. South.
He who has reason and good sense at his command needs few of the arts of the orator. Goethe.
He who imitates what is evil always exceeds; he who imitates what is good always falls short. Guicciardini.
He who in any way shows us better than we 50 knew before that a lily of the fields is beautiful, does he not show it us as an effluence of the fountain of all beauty—as the handwriting, made visible there, of the great Maker of the universe? Carlyle.
He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. Scott.
He who, in opposition to his own happiness, delighteth in the accumulation of riches, carrieth burdens for others and is the vehicle of trouble. Hitopadesa.
He who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another. Plato.
He who is a fool and knows it is not very far from being a wise man. J. B. (Selkirk).
He who is conscious of guilt cannot bear the 5 innocence of others: he tries to reduce other characters to his own level. C. Fox.
He who is deficient in the art of selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, produce all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It perpetually happens that one writer tells less truth than another, merely because he tells more truth. Macaulay.
He who is destitute of principles is governed, theoretically and practically, by whims. Jacobi.
He who is firm in his will moulds the world to himself. Goethe.
He who is good has no kind of envy. Plato.
He who is in disgrace with the sovereign is 10 disrespected by all. Hitopadesa.
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. Sir E. Brydges.
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it. Rousseau.
He who is moved to tears by every word of a priest is generally a weakling and a rascal when the feeling evaporates. Fr. v. Sallet.
He who is not possessed of such a book as will dispel many doubts, point out hidden treasures, and is, as it were, a mirror of all things, is even an ignorant man. Hitopadesa.
He who is of no use to himself is of no use to 15 any one. Dan. Pr.
He who is one with himself is everything. Auerbach.
He who is only half instructed speaks much, and is always wrong; he who knows it wholly, is content with acting, and speaks seldom or late. Goethe.
He who is only just is stern; he who is only wise lives in gloom. Voltaire.
He who is servant to (dient) the public is a poor animal (Thier); he torments himself, and nobody thanks him for it. Goethe.
He who is suave with all (lieblich thun mit 20 allen will) gets on with none: he pleases no one who tries to please thousands. Bodenstedt.
He who is the master of all opinions never can be the bigot of any. W. R. Alger.
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous. Amiel.
He who is weighty is willing to be weighed. Pr.
He who is willing to work finds it hard to wait. Pr.
He who knows himself well will very soon 25 learn to know all other men: it is all reflection (Zurückstrahlung). Lichtenberg.
He who knows how to sunder jest and earnest is a wise man, and who by cheerful playfulness reinvigorates himself for strenuous diligence. Rückert.
He who knows not the world, knows not his own place in it. Marcus Aurelius.
He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. Confucius.
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight. Pr.
He who laughs can commit no deadly sin. 30 Goethe's Mother.
He who lays out for God lays up for himself. Pr.
He who learns and makes no use of his learning is a beast of burden with a load of books. Saadi.
He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labours in his fields but does not sow. Saadi.
He who likes borrowing dislikes paying. Pr.
He who lives, and strives, and suffers for others 35 dear to him, is to be envied; he who lives only for himself is poor. H. Lingg.
He who lives to no purpose lives to a bad purpose. Nevius.
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray. Hazlitt.
He who loses wealth loses much, who loses a friend loses more, who loses his spirits loses all. Sp. Pr.
He who loves goodness harbours angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. Emerson.
He who loves not books before he comes to 40 thirty years of age will hardly love them enough afterwards to understand them. Clarendon.
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. Thomas à Kempis.
He who makes claims (Ansprüche), shows by doing so that he has none to make. Seume.
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion. Pr.
He who makes religion his first object makes it his whole object. Ruskin.
He who means to teach others may indeed 45 often suppress the best of what he knows, but he must not himself be half-instructed. Goethe.
He who mistrusts humanity is quite as often deceived as he who trusts men. Jean Paul.
He who mocks the infant's faith / Shall be mock'd in age and death. Wm. Blake.
He who never in his life was foolish was never a wise man. Heine.
He who obeys is almost always better than he who commands. Renan.
He who offers God a second place offers Him 50 no place. Ruskin.
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor. Holmes.