Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
even beneath the vulgar has no right to those distinctions which should be the reward only of merit. Goldsmith.
He whose days are passed away without giving or enjoying, puffing like the bellows of a blacksmith, liveth but by breathing. Hitopadesa.
He whose goodness is part of himself is what is called a real man. Mencius.
He whose sympathy goes lowest is the man 10 from whom kings have the most to fear. Emerson.
He whose understanding can discern what is, and judge what should or should not be applied to prevent misfortune, never sinketh under difficulties. Hitopadesa.
He whose word and deed you cannot predict, who answers you without any supplication in his eye, who draws his determination from within, and draws it instantly—that man rules. Emerson.
He whose work is on the highway will have many advisers. Sp. Pr.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. Hazlitt.
He will never set the Thames on fire. Pr. 15
He would fain fly, but wants wings. Pr.
He works hard who has nothing to do. Pr.
He wrought all kind of service with a noble ease / That graced the lowliest act in doing it. Tennyson.
He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can't perceive, / And he's a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe. Wm. Blake.
He's a man who dares to be / Firm for truth 20 when others flee. Pr.
He's a silly body that's never missed. Sc. Pr.
He's a wise man wha can take care o' himsel'. Sc. Pr.
He's armed without that's innocent within. Pope.
He's idle that may be better employed. Sc. Pr.
He's looking for the blade o' corn in the stack 25 o' chaff. J. M. Barrie.
He's most truly valiant / That can wisely suffer the worst that man / Can breathe; and make his wrongs his outsides: / To wear them like his raiment, carelessly, / And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, / To bring it into danger. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.
He's only great who can himself command. Lansdowne.
He's well worth (deserving of) sorrow that buys it with his ain siller. Sc. Pr.
He's wise that's wise in time. Sc. Pr.
Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. Com. 30 of Errors, ii. 1.
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. Spectator.
Health consists with temperance alone. Pope.
Health is better than wealth. Pr.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness—an open and noble temper. Emerson.
Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness 35 gives us the energy which is the basis of health. Amiel.
Health lies in labour, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. Wendell Phillips.
Health, longevity, beauty are other names for personal purity, and temperance is the regimen for all. A. B. Alcott.
Healthy action is always a balance of forces; and all extremes are dangerous; the excess of a good thing being often more dangerous in its social consequences than the excess of what is radically bad. Prof. Blackie, to Young Men.
Hear God, and God will hear you. Pr.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell / That 40 summons thee to heaven or to hell. Macb., ii. 1.
Hear much and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in this world. Raleigh.
Hear one side, and you will be in the dark; hear both, and all will be clear. Haliburton.
Hear ye not the hum / Of mighty workings? Keats.
Hearsay is half lies. Pr.
Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the 45 softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. Jean Paul.
Hearts are stronger than swords. Wendell Phillips.
Hearts grow warmer the farther you go / Up to the North with its hills and snow. Walter C. Smith.
Hearts may agree though heads differ. Sc. Pr.
Hearts philanthropic at times have the trick / Of the old hearts of stone. Walter C. Smith.
Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from 50 the grave of desire. W. R. Alger.
Heat and darkness, and what these two may breed. Carlyle.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal. Dante.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That it doth singe yourself. Hen. VIII., i. 1.
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely, perhaps, are discerned at all without them. James Martineau.
Heaven and yourself / Had part in this fair 55 maid (Juliet); now heaven hath all. Rom. and Jul., iv. 5.
Heaven bestows / At home all riches that wise Nature needs. Cowley.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, / Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike / As if we had them not. Meas. for Meas., i. 1.
Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. Rom. and Jul., v. 3.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, / All but the page prescribed—their present state. Pope.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. Congreve.
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it. Bp. Hall.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge / 5 That no king can corrupt. Hen. VIII., iii. 1.
Heaven is as near by sea as by land. Pr.
Heaven is in thy faith; happiness in thy heart. Arndt.
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. Quarles.
Heaven is not always angry when He strikes, / But most chastises those whom most He likes. Pomfret.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Wordsworth. 10
Heaven never helps the man that will not act. Sophocles.
Heaven often regulates effects