Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
He who overcomes his egoism rids himself of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness. Cötvös.
He who partakes in another's joys is more humane than he who partakes in his griefs. Lavater.
He who parts with his property before his death may prepare himself for bitter experiences. Fr. Pr.
He who pleased everybody died before he was born. Pr.
He who praises everybody praises nobody. 5 Johnson.
He who promises runs in debt. Talmud.
He who reaches the goal receives the crown, and often he who deserves it goes without it. Goethe.
He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. Luther.
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd of noisy impotent patriots. Lavater.
He who says, "I sought, yet I found not," 10 be sure he lies; he who says, "I sought not and found," be sure he deceives; he who says, "I sought and found," him believe—he speaks true. Rückert.
He who says what he likes must hear what he does not like. Dan. Pr.
He who scrubs every pig he sees will not long be clean himself. Pr.
He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. Goldsmith.
He who seeks the truth should be of no country. Voltaire.
He who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth 15 a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue. Sir P. Sidney.
He who sends mouths will send meat. Pr.
He who serves God serves a good Master. Pr.
He who serves the public serves a fickle master. Dut. Pr.
He who serves under reason anticipates necessity. Herder.
He who speaks sows; he who keeps silence 20 reaps. It. Pr.
He who spends himself for all that is noble, and gains by nothing but what is just, will hardly be notably wealthy or distressfully poor. Plato.
He who stays in the valley will never cross the mountain. Pr.
He who steals an egg would steal an ox. Pr.
He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear. Claudian.
He who tastes every man's broth often burns 25 his mouth. Dan. Pr.
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Pope.
He who tells the failings of others to you will be ready to tell your failings to others. Turk. Pr.
He who the sword of Heaven will bear / Should be as holy as severe. Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.
He who thinks for himself, and imitates rarely, is a free man. Klopstock.
He who thinks his place below him will certainly 30 be below his place. Saville.
He who thinks to save anything by his religion besides his soul will be a loser in the end. Bp. Barlow.
He who thinks too much will accomplish little. Schiller.
He who traces nothing of God in his own soul will never find God in the world of matter—mere circlings of force there of iron regulation, of universal death and merciless indifferency. Carlyle.
He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things. Emerson.
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes 35 his own man his master. Dryden.
He who waits for dead men's shoes may go barefoot. Pr.
He who wants any help or prop, in addition to the internal evidences of its truth for his belief, never was and never will be a Christian. B. R. Haydon.
He who wants everything must know many things, do many things to procure even a few; different from him whose indispensable knowledge is this only, that a finger will pull the bell! Carlyle.
He who will be great must collect himself; only in restriction does the master show himself. Goethe.
He who will deaden one half of his nature to 40 invigorate the other half will become at best a distorted prodigy. Sir J. Stephen.
He who will do faithfully needs to believe firmly. Carlyle.
He who will eat the nut must crack it. Frisian Pr.
He who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. Cornish Pr.
He who will sell his fame will also sell the public interest. Solon.
He who will work aright must not trouble 45 himself about what is ill done, but only do well himself. Goethe.
He who wills all, wills in effect nothing, and brings it to nothing. Hegel.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. Confucius.
He who works with symbols merely is a pedant, a hypocrite, and a bungler. Goethe.
He who would be everywhere will be nowhere. Dan. Pr.
He who would bring home the wealth of the 50 Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. Sp. Pr.
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. Ger. Pr.
He who would gather honey must brave the sting of the bees. Dut. Pr.
He who would gather roses must not fear thorns. Dut. Pr.
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. Milton.
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees 55 a counterfeit. Dryden.
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind. Ger. Pr.
He who would write heroic poems must make his whole life a heroic poem. Milton, quoted by Carlyle.
He whom God has gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. Bulwer Lytton.
He whom God steers sails safely. Pr.
He whom the inevitable cannot overcome is 5 unconquerable. Epictetus.
He whom toil has braced or manly play, / As light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day. Thomson.
He whose actions sink