Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
wicked what they have deserved. Corneille.
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. A. B. Alcott.
Heaven, which really in one sense is merciful to sinners, is in no sense merciful to fools, but even lays pitfalls for them and inevitable snares. Ruskin.
Heaven's above all; and there be souls that 15 must be saved, and there be souls that must not be saved. Othello, ii. 3.
Heavens! can you then thus waste, in shameful wise, / Your few important days of trial here? / Heirs of eternity! yborn to rise / Through endless states of being, still more near / To bliss approaching, and perfection clear. Thomson.
Heaven's eternal wisdom hath decreed that man of man should ever stand in need. Theocritus.
Heaven's fire confounds when fann'd with folly's breath. Quarles.
Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. Daniel Webster.
Heavens! if privileged from trial, / How cheap 20 a thing were virtue! Thomson.
Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself that hideous sight—a naked human heart. Young.
Heav'n finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. Quarles.
Heav'n is for thee too high; be lowly wise. Milton.
Heav'n is not always got by running. Quarles.
Heav'n is not day'd. Repentance is not dated. 25 Quarles.
Hebt mich das Glück, so bin ich froh, / Und sing in dulci jubilo; / Senkt sich das Rad und quetscht mich nieder, / So denk' ich: nun, es hebt sich wieder—When Fortune lifts me up, then am I glad and sing in sweet exultation; when she sinks down and lays me prostrate, then I begin to think, Now it will rise again. Goethe.
Hectora quis nosset, si felix Troja fuisset? / Publica virtuti per mala facta via est—Who would have known of Hector if Troy had been fortunate? A highway is open to virtue through the midst of misfortunes. Ovid.
Hectors Liebe stirbt im Lethe nicht—Hector's love does not perish in the floods of Lethe. Schiller.
Hedges between keep friendship green. Pr.
Hedgerows and Hercules-pillars, however perfect, 30 are to be reprobated as soon as they diminish the free world of a future man. Jean Paul.
Heilig sei dir der Tag; doch schätze das Leben nicht höher / Als ein anderes Gut, und alle Güter sind trüglich—Sacred be this day to thee, yet rate not life higher than another good, for all our good things are illusory. Goethe.
Hei mihi! difficile est imitari gaudia falsa! / Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum—Ah me! it is hard to feign the joys one does not feel, hard to feign mirth when one's heart is sad. Tib.
Hei mihi! qualis erat! quantum mutatus ab illo / Hectore, qui redit, exuvias indutus Achilli—Ah me, how sad he looked! how changed from that Hector who returned in triumph arrayed in the spoils of Achilles. Virg.
Heitern Sinn und reine Zwecke / Nun, man kommt wohl eine Strecke—Serene sense and pure aims, that means a long stride, I should say. Goethe.
"Hélas! que j'en ai vu mourir de jeunes filles"—"Alas, 35 how many young girls have I seen die of that!" Victor Hugo.
Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes of men are never satisfied. Bible.
Hell is on both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. C. H. Parkhurst.
Hell is paved with good intentions. Johnson.
Hell is paved with the skulls of priests. Modified from St. Chrysostom.
Hell lies near, / Around us, as does heaven, 40 and in the world, / Which is our Hades, still the chequered souls, / Compact of good and ill—not all accurst, / Nor altogether blest—a few brief years / Travel the little journey of their lives, / They know not to what end. Lewis Morris.
Helluo librorum—A devourer of books.
Help others and seek to avenge no injury. Fors.
Help which is long on the road is no help. Pr.
Help yourself and your friends will help you. Pr.
Helpless mortal! Thine arm can destroy 45 thousands at once, but cannot enclose even two of thy fellow-creatures at once in the embrace of love and sympathy. Jean Paul.
Hence, babbling dreams; you threaten here in vain; / Conscience, avaunt, Richard's himself again. Colley Cibber.
Her angel's face, / As the great eye of heaven, shined bright, / And made a sunshine in the shady place. Spenser.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson.
Her feet, beneath her petticoat, / Like little mice stole in and out, / As if they fear'd the light; / But oh! she dances such a way, / No sun upon an Easter-day / Is half so fine a sight. Sir J. Suckling.
Her own person, / It beggar'd all description. Ant. and Cleop., ii. 2.
Her sun is gone down while it was yet day. Bible.
Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low—an excellent thing in woman. King Lear, v. 3.
Hercules himself must yield to odds; / And 5 many strokes, though with a little axe, / Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1.
Here eyes do regard you / In Eternity's stillness; / Here is all fulness, / Ye brave, to reward you. / Work and despair not. Goethe.
Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. St. Paul.
Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, / Controlment for controlment. King John, i. 1.
Here I and sorrows sit; / Here is my throne; bid kings come bow to it. King John, iii. 1.
Here I lay, and thus I bore my point. 1 Hen. 10 IV., ii. 4-.
Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home. J. Montgomery.
Here lies Johnny Pigeon! / What was his religion, / Wha e'er desires to ken / To some ither warl' / Maun follow the carl, / For here Johnny Pigeon had nane. Burns.
Here lies one whose name was writ in water. Keat's epitaph.
Here lies our sovereign lord the king, / Whose word no man relies on; / He never says a foolish thing, / Nor ever does a wise one. Rochester on Charles II.'s chamber-door.
Here lieth one, believe it if you can, / Who, 15 though an attorney, was an honest man! Epitaph.
Here, on earth we are as soldiers fighting in a foreign land, that understand not the plan of the campaign, and have no need to understand it, seeing well what is at our hand to be done. Carlyle.
Here or nowhere