Dictionary of Quotations

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Ha! lass dich den Teufel bei einem Haar fassen, und du bist sein auf ewig—Ha! let the devil seize thee by a hair, and thou art his for ever. Lessing.

Ha! welche Lust, Soldat zu sein—Ah! what a pleasure it is to be a soldier. Boieldieu.

Hab' mich nie mit Kleinigkeiten abgegeben—I 45 have never occupied myself with trifles. Schiller.

"Habe gehabt," ist ein armer Mann—"I have had," is a poor man. Ger. Pr.

Habeas corpus—A writ to deliver one from prison, and show reason for his detention, with a view to judge of its justice, lit. you may have the body. L.

Habeas corpus ad prosequendum—You may bring up the body for the purpose of prosecution. L. Writ.

Habeas corpus ad respondendum—You may bring up the body to make answer. L. Writ.

Habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum—You may 50 bring up the body to satisfy. L. Writ.

Habemus confitentem reum—We have the confession of the accused. L.

Habemus luxuriam atque avaritiam, publice egestatem, privatim opulentiam—We have luxury and avarice, but as a people poverty, and in private opulence. Cato in Sall.

Habent insidias hominis blanditiæ mali—Under the fair words of a bad man there lurks some treachery. Phaedr.

Habent sua fata libelli—Books have their destinies. Hor.

Habeo senectuti magnam gratiam, quæ mihi sermonis aviditatem auxit—I owe it to old age, that my relish for conversation is so increased. Cic.

Habere derelictui rem suam—To neglect one's affairs. Aul. Gell.

Habere et dispertire—To have and to distribute.

Habere facias possessionem—You shall cause to take possession. L. Writ.

Habere, non haberi—To hold, not to be held. 5

Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitur—Every great example of punishment has in it some tincture of injustice, but the wrong to individuals is compensated by the promotion of the public good. Tac.

Habet iracundia hoc mali, non vult regi—There is in anger this evil, that it will not be controlled. Sen.

Habet salem—He has wit; he is a wag.

Habit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world. Carlyle.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best 10 nightcap. Kincaid.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. St. Augustine.

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Pascal.

Habit is necessary to give power. Hazlitt.

Habit is ten times nature. Wellington. 15

Habit is the deepest law of human nature. Carlyle.

Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for our past sins. George Eliot.

Habit is too arbitrary a master for my liking. Lavater.

Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day. Lamartine.

Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables. 20 Pr.

Habits (of virtue) are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation. Bernard Gilpin.

Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up. Spurgeon.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. Douglas Jerrold.

Hablar sin pensar es tirar sin encarar—Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. Sp. Pr.

Hac mercede placet—I accept the terms. 25

Hac sunt in fossa Bedæ venerabilis ossa—In this grave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede. Inscription on Bede's tomb.

Hac urget lupus, hac canis—On one side a wolf besets you, on the other a dog. Hor.

Hactenus—Thus far.

Had Cæsar or Cromwell changed countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman. Goldsmith.

Had God meant me to be different, He would 30 have created me different. Goethe.

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal / I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event. Euripides.

Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place. Carlyle.

Had religion been a mere chimæra, it would long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible of a definite formula, that formula would long ago have been discovered. Renan.

Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one. 35 Byron.

Had we never loved sae kindly, / Had we never loved sae blindly, / Never met or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted! Burns.

Hæ nugæ seria ducent / In mala—These trifles will lead to serious mischief. Hor.

Hæ tibi erant artes, pacisque imponere morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos—These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. Virg.

Hae you gear (goods), or hae you nane, / Tine (lose) heart, and a's gane. Sc. Pr.

Hæc a te non multum abludit imago—This 40 picture bears no small resemblance to yourself. Hor.

Hæc amat obscurum; volet hæc sub luce videri, / Judicis argutum quæ non formidat acumen; / Hæc placuit semel; hæc decies repetita placebit—One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. Hor.

Hæc brevis est nostrorum summa malorum—Such is the short sum of our evils. Ovid.

Hæc ego mecum / Compressis agito labris; ubi quid datur oti, / Illudo chartis—These things I revolve by myself with compressed lips, When I have any leisure, I amuse myself with my writings. Hor.

Hæc est condicio vivendi, aiebat, eoque / Responsura tuo nunquam est par fama labori—"Such is the lot of life," he said, "and so your merits will never receive their due meed of praise." Hor.

Hæc generi incrementa fides—This fidelity will 45 bring new glory to our race. M.

Hæc olim meminisse juvabit—It will be a joy to us to recall this, some day. Virg.

Hæc omnia transeunt—All these things pass away. M.

Hæc perinde sunt, ut illius animus, qui ea possidet. / Qui uti scit, ei bona, illi qui non utitur recte, mala—These things are exactly according to the disposition of him who possesses them. To him who knows how to use them, they are blessings; to him who does not use them aright, they are evils. Ter.

Hæc prima lex in amicitia sanciatur, ut neque rogemus res turpes, nec faciamus rogati—Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. Cic.

Hæc scripsi non otii abundantia, sed amoris 50 erga te—I have written this, not as having abundance of leisure, but out of love for you. Cic.

Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium ac perfugium præbent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur—These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. Cic.

Hæc studia oblectant—These studies are our delight. M.

Hæc sunt jucundi causa cibusque mali—These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. Ovid.

Hæc vivendi ratio mihi non convenit—This mode of living does not suit me. Cic.

Hæredis fletus sub persona risus est—The 5 weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask. Pr.

Hæreditas nunquam ascendit—The right of inheritance never lineally ascends. L.

Hæres jure repræsentationis—An heir by right of representation. L.

Hæres legitimus est quem nuptiæ demonstrant—He is the lawful heir whom marriage points out as such. L.

Hæret lateri lethalis arundo—The fatal shaft sticks deep in her side. Virg.

Halb sind sie kalt, Halb sind sie roh—Half of 10 them are without heart, half without culture. Goethe.

Half a house is half a hell. Ger. Pr.

Half a loaf is better than no bread. Pr.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. Emerson.

Half a word fixed upon, or near, the spot is worth a cartload of recollection. Gray to Palgrave.

Half the ease of life oozes away through the 15 leaks of unpunctuality. Anon.

Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. George Dawson.

Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. Barry Cornwall.

Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: if the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they are quiet, they do not want liberty. Macaulay.

Half-wits greet each other. Gael. Pr.

Hältst du Natur getreu im Augenmerk, / 20 Frommt jeder tüchtige Meister dir: / Doch klammerst du dich blos an Menschenwerk, / Wird alles, was du schaffst, Manier—If you keep Nature faithfully in view, the example of every thorough master will be of service to you; but if you merely cling to human work, all that you do will be but mannerism. Geibel.

Hanc personam induisti, agenda est—You have assumed this part, and you must act it out. Sen.

Hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim—We both expect this privilege, and give it in return. Hor.

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd. / Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. Gray.

Handsome is that handsome does. Pr.

Handsomeness is the more animal excellence, 25 beauty the more imaginative. Hare.

Häng' an die grosse Glocke nicht / Was jemand im Vertrauen spricht—Blaze not abroad to others what any one confides to you in secret. Claudius.

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld. Sc. Pr.

Hang constancy! you know too much of the world to be constant, sure. Fielding.

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, / And therefore let's be merry. G. Wither.

Hänge nicht alles auf einen Nagel—Hang not 30 all on one nail. Ger. Pr.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.

Hannibal ad portas—Hannibal is at the gates. Cic.

Hap and mishap govern the world. Pr.

Happiest they of human race, / To whom God has granted grace / To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, / To lift the latch and force the way; / And better had they ne'er been born, / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. Scott.

Happily to steer / From grave to gay, from 35 lively to severe. Pope.

Happiness consists in activity; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. J. M. Good.

Happiness depends not on the things, but on the taste. La Roche.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries. Douglas Jerrold.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. Goethe.

Happiness is a chimæra and suffering a reality. 40 Schopenhauer.

Happiness is "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion." Quoted by Sterne.

Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality. Voltaire.

Happiness is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Happiness is like the mirage in the desert; she tantalises us with a delusion that distance creates and that contiguity destroys. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose 45 veil no mortal ever raised. Landor.

Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. Chamfort.

Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God. Pascal.

Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. Amiel.

Happiness is only evident to us by deliverance from evil. Nicole.

Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which 50 penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears. M. de Guérin.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure. Socrates.

Happiness lies first of all in health. G. W. Curtis.

Happiness, like Juno, is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession, deified by those who cannot enjoy her, and despised by those who can. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse. A. Smith.

Happiness springs not from a large fortune, but temperate habits and simple wishes. Riches increase not by increase of the supply of want, but by decrease of the sense of it,—the minimum of it being the maximum of them. Ed.

Happiness, that grand mistress of ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Happiness travels incognita to keep a private 5 assignation with contentment, and to partake of a tête-à-tête and a dinner of herbs in a cottage. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Happiness, when unsought, is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek her the most diligently fail the most, because they seek her where she is not. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending. Much Ado, ii. 3.

Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee. Schiller.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions. Goethe.

Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun 10 brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty. Carlyle.

Happy he that can abandon everything by which his conscience is defiled or burdened. Thomas à Kempis.

Happy in that we are not over-happy; / On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. Ham., ii. 2.

Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Goethe.

Happy is that house and blessed is that congregation where Martha still complains of Mary. S. Bern.

Happy he whose last hour strikes in the midst 15 of his children. Grillparzer.

Happy is he that is happy in his children. Pr.

Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty. Goethe.

Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. Hare.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. Emerson.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest 20 and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. Sen.

Happy is the man whose father went to the devil. Pr.

Happy lowly clown! / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown! 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Carlyle.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. Carlyle.

Happy that I can / Be crossed and thwarted 25 as a man, / Not left in God's contempt apart, / With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, / Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. Browning.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, / He who can call to-day his own; / He who, secure within, can say, / To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Dryden, after Horace.

Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself. Cervantes.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in History's book. Montesquieu.

Happy thou art not; / For what thou hast not still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgett'st. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, / 30 From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Dryden.

Hard is the factor's rule; no better is the minister's. Gael. Pr.

Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest. Wellington at Waterloo.

Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds hard. Pr.

Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other. Ben. Franklin.

Hardness ever of hardiness is mother. Cymbeline, 35 iii. 6.

Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. John Neal.

Harm watch, harm catch. Pr.

Hart kann die Tugend sein, doch grausam nie, / unmenschlich nie—Virtue may be stern, though never cruel, never inhuman. Schiller.

Harvests are Nature's bank dividends. Haliburton.

Has any man, or any society of men, a truth 40 to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery they were hopeless, helpless; a colony of Hindoo weavers squatting in the heart of Lancashire. Carlyle.

Has patitur pœnas peccandi sola voluntas. / Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, / Facti crimen habet—Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. Juv.

Has pœnas garrula lingua dedit—This punishment a prating tongue brought on him. Ovid.

Has vaticinationes eventus comprobavit—The event has verified these predictions. Cic.

Hassen und Neiden / Muss der Biedre leiden. / Es erhöht des Mannes Wert, / Wenn der Hass sich auf ihn kehrt—The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. Gottfried von Strassburg.

Hast du im Thal ein sichres Haus, / Dann wolle nie zu hoch hinaus—Hast thou a secure house in the valley? Then set not thy heart on a higher beyond. Förster.

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, 5 breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. Fuller.

Haste is of the devil. Koran.

Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife. Sc. Pr.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. Sen.

Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes too late. Bovee.

Hasty resolutions seldom speed well. Pr. 10

Hat man die Liebe durchgeliebt / Fängt man die Freundschaft an—After love friendship (lit. when we have lived through love we begin friendship). Heine.

Hate injures no one; it is contempt that casts men down. Goethe.

Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more so. Goethe.

Hâtez-vous lentement, et sans perdre courage—Leisurely, and don't lose heart. Fr.

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? Let wisdom 15 make thee a good gamester. Quarles.

Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall not we revenge? Mer. of Venice, iii. 1.

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love. Buddha.

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. Goethe.

Hatred is active, and envy passive, disgust; there is but one step from envy to hate. Goethe.

Hatred is but an inverse love. Carlyle. 20

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love. Vauvenargues.

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly. George Eliot.

"Hätte ich gewusst," ist ein armer Mann—"If I had known," is a poor man. Ger. Pr.

Haud æquum facit, / Qui quod didicit, id dediscit—He does not do right who unlearns what he has learnt. Plaut.

Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat 25 / Res angusta domi—Not easily do those attain to distinction whose abilities are cramped by domestic poverty. Juv.

Haud ignara ac non incauta futuri—Neither ignorant nor inconsiderate of the future. Hor.

Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco—Not unfamiliar with misfortune myself, I have learned to succour the wretched. Virg.

Haud passibus æquis—With unequal steps. Virg.

Haut et bon—Great and good. M.

Haut goût—High flavour. Fr. 30

Have a care o' the main chance. Butler.

Have a spécialité, a work in which you are at home. Spurgeon.

Have any deepest scientific individuals yet dived down to the foundations of the universe and gauged everything there? Did the Maker take them into His counsel, that they read His ground-plan of the incomprehensible All, and can say, This stands marked therein, and no more than this? Alas! not in any wise. Carlyle.

Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a love, that I am ready to die for? are the first trial questions to itself of a true soul. Ruskin.

Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far / 35 To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth? Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.

Have I not earn'd my cake in baking of it? Tennyson.

Have more than thou showest; / Speak less than thou knowest; / Lend less than thou owest; / Learn more than thou trowest; / Set less than thou throwest. King Lear, i. 4.

Have not all nations conceived their God as omnipresent and eternal, as existing in a universal Here, an everlasting Now? Carlyle.

Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain. Pr.

Have the French for friends, but not for neighbours. 40 Pr.

Have you found your life distasteful? / My life did, and does, smack sweet. / Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? / Mine I saved and hold complete. / Do your joys with age diminish? / When mine fail me, I'll complain. / Must in death your daylight finish? / My sun sets to rise again. Browning.

Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires. Montaigne.

Have you not heard it said full oft, / A woman's nay doth stand for nought? Shakespeare.

Have you prayed to-night, Desdemona? Othello, v. 2.

Having food and raiment, let us be therewith 45 content. St. Paul.

Having is having, come whence it may. Ger. Pr.

Having is in no case the fruit of lusting, but of living. Ed.

Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. Hitopadesa.

Having waste ground enough, / Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary / And pitch our evils there? Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

Hay buena cuenta, y no paresca blanca—The account is all right, but the money-bags are empty. Sp. Pr.

He alone has energy that cannot be deprived of it. Lavater.

He alone is happy, and he is truly so, who can say, "Welcome life, whatever it brings! welcome death, whatever it is!" Bolingbroke.

He alone is worthy of respect who knows what is of use to himself and others, and who labours to control his self-will. Goethe.

He also that is slothful in his work is brother 5 to him that is a great waster. Bible.

He always wins who sides with God. Faber.

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. Bible.

He behoves to have meat enou' that sal stop ilka man's mou'. Sc. Pr.

He best restrains anger who remembers God's eye is upon him. Plato.

He buys very dear who begs. Port. Pr. 10

He by whom the geese were formed white, parrots stained green, and peacocks painted of various hues—even He will provide for their support. Hitopadesa.

He can ill run that canna gang (walk). Sc. Pr.

He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle. Dut. Pr.

He cannot see the wood for the trees. Ger. Pr.

He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his 15 pack, / For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back. Goldsmith.

He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner. Sir P. Sidney.

He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution. Goethe.

He could distinguish and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. Butler.

He cries out before he is hurt. It. Pr.

He dances well to whom fortune pipes. Pr. 20

He doesna aye flee when he claps his wings. Sc. Pr.

He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water. Bodenstedt.

He does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity. Johnson.

He doeth much that doeth a thing well. Thomas à Kempis.

He doeth well that serveth the common 25 good rather than his own will. Thomas à Kempis.

He doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus; and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs, and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

He doubts nothing who knows nothing. Port. Pr.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Love's L. Lost, v. 1.

He draws nothing well who thirsts not to draw everything. Ruskin.

He either fears his fate too much, / Or his 30 deserts are small, / Who dares not put it to the touch / To win or lose it all. Marquis of Montrose.

He frieth in his own grease. Pr.

He gave his honours to the world again, / His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

He giveth His beloved sleep. Bible.

He goeth back that continueth not. St. Augustine.

He goeth better that creepeth in his way 35 than he that runneth out of his way. St. Augustine.

He had a face like a benediction. Cervantes.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons. Swift.

He had never kindly heart / Nor ever cared to better his own kind, / Who first wrote satire with no pity in it. Tennyson.

He has a bee in his bonnet, i.e., is hare-brained. Sc. Pr.

He has a head, and so has a pin. Port. 40 Pr.

He has a killing tongue and a quiet sword, by the means whereof 'a breaks words and keeps whole weapons. Hen. V., iii. 2.

He has faut (need) o' a wife wha marries mam's pet. Sc. Pr.

He has hard work who has nothing to do. Pr.

He has no religion who has no humanity. Arab. Pr.

He has not learned the lesson of life who 45 does not every day surmount a fear. Emerson.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. Ben. Franklin.

He has seen a wolf. Pr. of one who suddenly curbs his tongue.

He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man. Carlyle.

He has wit at will that, when angry, can sit him still. Sc. Pr.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his 50 tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. Much Ado, iii. 2.

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand / Open as day for melting charity. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

He hath ill repented whose sins are repeated. St. Augustine.

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.

He honours God that imitates Him. Sir T. Browne.

He in whom there is much to be developed will 55 be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world. Goethe.

He is a fool who empties his purse, or store, to fill another's. Sp. Pr.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill / To turn the current of a woman's will. S. Tuke.

He is a great and a good man from whom the needy, or those who come for protection, go not away with disappointed hopes and discontented countenances. Hitopadesa.

He is a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty: he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, while they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error. Emerson.

He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need, but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend. Arthur Warwick.

He is a hard man who is only just, and he a sad man who is only wise. Voltaire.

He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a moment! Longfellow.

He is a little man; let him go and work with 5 the women! Longfellow.

He is a madman (Rasender) who does not embrace and hold fast the good fortune which a god (ein Gott) has given into his hand. Schiller.

He is a man who doth not suffer his members and faculties to cause him uneasiness. Hitopadesa.

He is a minister who doth not behave with insolence and pride. Hitopadesa.

He is a poor smith who cannot bear smoke. Pr.

He is a strong man who can hold down his 10 opinion. Emerson.

He is a true sage who learns from all the world. Eastern Pr.

He is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach. Much Ado, i. 1.

He is a wise child that knows his own father. Pr.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus.

He is a wise man who knoweth that his words 15 should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength. Hitopadesa.

He is a wise man who knows what is wise. Xenophon.

He is a worthy person who is much respected by good men. Hitopadesa.

He is all there when the bell rings. Pr.

He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. Cic.

He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin 20 who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot. Goethe.

He is below himself who is not above an injury. Quarles.

He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms. Rousseau.

He is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation. King John, i. 1.

He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man. Shakespeare.

He is gentil that doth gentil dedes. Chaucer. 25

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. Emerson.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home. Goethe.

He is happy who is forsaken by his passions. Hitopadesa.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. Hare.

He is just as truly running counter to God's 30 will by being intentionally wretched as by intentionally doing wrong. W. R. Greg.

He is kind who guardeth another from misfortune. Hitopadesa.

He is lifeless that is faultless. Pr.

He is my friend that grinds at my mill. Pr.

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me. Pr.

He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants. 35 Dan. Pr.

He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. Pr.

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. Johnson.

He is noble who feels and acts nobly. Heine.

He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn. Dan. Pr.

He is not a true man of science who does not 40 bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. Thoreau.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. Socrates.

He is not the best carpenter who makes the most chips. Pr.

He is not yet born who can please everybody. Dan. Pr.

He is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all. Wordsworth.

He is richest that has fewest wants. Pr. 45

He is the best dressed gentleman whose dress no one observes. Trollope.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. Victor Hugo.

He is the free man whom the truth makes free, / And all are slaves besides. Cowper.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas. Ruskin.

He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered 50 himself. Pr.

He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Ward Beecher.

He is the half part of a blessèd man, / Left to be finishèd by such as she; / And she a fair divided excellence, / Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. King John, ii. 2.

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilisation. Emerson.

He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. Emerson.

He is the world's master who despises it, its 55 slave who prizes it. It. Pr.

He is truly great who is great in charity. Thomas à Kempis.

He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it. Sen.

He is well paid that is well satisfied. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

He is wise that is wise to himself. Euripides.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture. Carlyle.

He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares / At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; / And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, / Have not the grace to grace it with such show. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

He is wrong who thinks that authority based 5 on force is more weighty and more lasting than that which rests on kindness. Ter.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. Bible.

He kens muckle wha kens when to speak, but far mair wha kens when to haud (hold) his tongue. Sc. Pr.

He knew what's what, and that's as high / As metaphysic wit can fly. Butler.

He knocks boldly at the door who brings good 10 news. Pr.

He knows best what good is that has endured evil. Pr.

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. Fuller.

He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue. Pr.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision. Lavater.

He knows not what love is that has no children. 15 Pr.

He knows the water the best who has waded through it. Pr.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man. Lavater.

He left a name at which the world grew pale, / To point a moral or adorn a tale. Johnson.

He lies there who never feared the face of man. The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave.

He life's war knows / Whom all his passions 20 follow as he goes. George Herbert.

He little merits bliss who others can annoy. Thomson.

He lives twice who can at once employ / The present well and e'en the past enjoy. Pope.

He lives who lives to God alone, / And all are dead beside; / For other source than God is none / Whence life can be supplied. Cowper.

He looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man. Longfellow.

He loses his thanks who promises and delays. 25 Pr.

He loves but lightly who his love can tell. Petrarch.

He makes no friend who never made a foe. Tennyson.

He (your Father) maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Jesus.

He maun lout (stoop) that has a laigh (low) door. Sc. Pr.

He may rate himself a happy man who lives 30 remote from the gods of this world. Goethe.

Hé, mon ami, tire-moi du danger; tu feras après ta harangue—Hey! my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. La Fontaine.

He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. P. J. Bailey.

He must be a good shot who always hits the mark. Dut. Pr.

He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly. Hare.

He must cry loud who would frighten the devil. 35 Dan. Pr.

He must needs go that the devil drives. Pr.

He must stand high who would see his destiny to the end. Dan. Pr.

He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful. Johnson.

He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil. Pr.

He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper 40 light. Dryden.

He ne'er made a gude darg (day's work) wha gaed (went) grumbling about it. Sc. Pr.

He never is crowned / With immortality, who fears to follow / Where airy voices lead. Keats.

He never knew pain who never felt the pangs of love. Platen.

He never lees (lies) but when the holland's (holly's) green, i.e., always. Sc. Pr.

He never yet stood sure that stands secure. 45 Quarles.

He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it. Corneille.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Cic.

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living peace. Ruskin.

He only is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed. Lavater.

He only is exempt from failures who makes 50 no efforts. Whately.

He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best. R. D. Hitchcock.

He only is rich who owns the day. Emerson.

He only who forgets to hoard has learned to live. Keble.

He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them. Cic.

He paidles a guid deal in the water, but he 55 tak's care no to wet his feet. Sc. Pr.

He prayeth best who loveth best / All things, both great and small; / For the dear Lord who loveth us, / He made and loveth all. Coleridge.

He preaches well who lives well. Sp. Pr.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. Bovee.

He rais'd a mortal to the skies, / She drew an angel down. Dryden.

He raises not himself up whom God casts down. Goethe.

He reads much: / He is a great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, / As thou dost, Anthony; he hears no music: / Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort / As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit / That could be moved to smile at anything. / Such men as he be never at heart's ease / Whiles they behold a greater than themselves; / And therefore are they very dangerous. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

He rideth easily enough whom the grace of 5 God carrieth. Thomas à Kempis.

He runs far who never turns. It. Pr.

He scarce is knight, yea, but half-man, nor meet / To fight for gentle damsel, he who lets / His heart be stirr'd with any foolish heat / At any gentle damsel's waywardness. Tennyson.

He serves his party best who serves his country best. R. B. Hayes.

He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide and define. Quoted by Emerson.

He shone with the greater splendour because 10 he was not seen. Tac.

He sins as much who holds the sack as he who puts into it. Fr. Pr.

He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake, i.e., is wide awake, though pretending not to see. Sc. Pr.

He spends best that spares to spend again. Pr.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. Lavater.

He swallows the egg and gives away the shell 15 in alms. Ger. Pr.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. Bible.

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. Colton.

He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never either be, or know, or have. It. Pr.

He that believeth shall not make haste. Bible.

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has 20 nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. Ben. Franklin.

He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. Charron.

He that builds by the wayside has many masters. Pr.

He that buyeth magistracy must sell justice. Pr.

He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want. Pr.

He that, by often arguing against his own 25 sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself. Locke.

He that by the plough would thrive, / Himself must either hold or drive. Pr.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. Bible.

He that can be patient has his foe at his feet. Dut. Pr.

He that can be won with a feather will be lost with a straw. Pr.

He that can conceal his joys is greater than he 30 who can hide his griefs. Lavater.

He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man. Emerson.

He that can discriminate is the father of his father. The Vedas.

He that can endure / To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord, / Does conquer him that did his master conquer, / And earns a place i' the story. Ant. and Cleop., iii. 11.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter. Fielding.

He that can write a true book to persuade 35 England, is not he the bishop and archbishop, the primate of England and of all England? Carlyle.

He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many. Carlyle.

He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever. Carlyle.

He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person. Pr.

He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one. Pr.

He that claims, either in himself or for another, 40 the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist. Johnson.

He that climbs the tall tree has won a right to the fruit: / He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. Scott.

He that comes unca'd (uninvited) sits unsair'd (unserved). Sc. Pr.

He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction. Bacon.

He that complies against his will, / is of the same opinion still. Butler.

He that conquers himself conquers an enemy. 45 Gael. Pr.

He that cuts himself wilfully deserves no salve. Pr.

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. Bacon.

He that descends not to word it with a shrew does worse than beat her. L'Estrange.

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything. Pr.

He that dies, pays all debts. Tempest, iii. 2. 50

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. Jeremy Taylor.

He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch. Gael.

He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson.

He that does what he can, does what he ought. Pr.

He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you. Pr.

He that doeth evil hateth the light. Jesus. 5

He that doeth truth cometh to the light. St. John.

He that doth not plough at home won't plough abroad. Gael. Pr.

He that doth the ravens feed, / Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, / Be comfort to my age. As You Like It, ii. 3.

He that eats longest lives longest. Pr.

He that endureth is not overcome. Pr. 10

He that, ever following her (Duty's) commands, / On with toil of heart and knees and hands, / Thro' the long gorge to the far light has won / His path upward, and prevail'd, / Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled, / Are close upon the shining tablelands / To which our God Himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.

He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls. Fuller.

He that feareth is not made perfect in love. St. John.

He that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day. Goldsmith.

He that filches from me my good name / Robs 15 me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed. Othello, iii. 3.

He that finds something before it is lost will die before he falls ill. Dut. Pr.

He that flees not will be fled from. Gael. Pr.

He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge / May chance to catch a fall. Old song.

He that gets gear (wealth) before he gets wit, is but a short time master o' it. Sc. Pr.

He that gets patience, and the blessing which / 20 Preachers conclude with, hath not lost his pains. George Herbert.

He that gives to the poor lends to the Lord. Pr.

He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. Pr.

He that goes softly goes safely. Pr.

He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast. Pr.

He that has a head of wax should not walk in 25 the sun. Pr.

He that has a head will not want a hat. It. Pr.

He that has a wife has a master. Sc. Pr.

He that has ae sheep in a flock will like a' the lave (rest) better for 't. Sc. Pr.

He that has an ill wife likes to eat butter (but her, i.e. without her). Sc. Pr.

He that has been taught only by himself has 30 had a fool for a master. Ben Jonson.

He that has just enough can soundly sleep; / The o'ercome only fashes fowk to keep. Allan Ramsay.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day. Milton.

He that has lost his faith, what staff has he left? Bacon.

He that has muckle would aye hae mair. Sc. Pr.

He that has no head needs no hat. Sp. Pr. 35

He that has no sense at thirty will never have any. Pr.

He that has no shame has no conscience. Pr.

He that has siller in his purse canna want (do without) a head on his shoulders. Sc. Pr.

He that has to choose has trouble. Dut. Pr.

He that hateth gifts shall live. Bible. 40

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. Much Ado, ii. 1.

He that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he hath need to be afraid of others' memory. Bacon.

He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour. Ben. Franklin.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Bacon.

He that hath but gained the title of a jester, 45 let him assure himself the fool is not far off. Quarles.

He that hath care of keeping days of payment is lord of another man's purse. Lord Burleigh.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Jesus.

He that hath gained an entire conquest over himself will find no mighty difficulties to subdue all other opposition. Thomas à Kempis.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. Bible.

He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. 50 Bible.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. Bible.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord. Bible.

He that hath sense hath strength. Hitopadesa.

He that hears much and speaks not at all, / Shall be welcome both in bower and hall. Pr.

He that high growth on cedars did bestow, / 55 Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow. R. Southwell.

He that hinders not a mischief is guilty of it. Pr.

He that humbles himself shall be exalted. Pr.

He that imposes an oath makes it, / Not he that for convenience takes it. Butler.

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Bible.

He that invented the Maiden, first hanselled it, 60 i.e., first put it to the proof. (The Maiden was a kind of guillotine.) Sc. Pr.

He that is a friend to himself is a friend to all men. Sen.

He that is born of a hen must scrape for a living. Pr.

He that is courteous at all, will be courteous to all. Gael. Pr.

He that is discontented and troubled is tossed with divers suspicions; he is neither quiet himself, nor suffereth others to be quiet. Thomas à Kempis.

He that is doing nothing is seldom without helpers. Pr.

He that is down needs fear no fall; / He that 5 is low no pride. Bunyan.

He that is down, the world cries "Down with him!" Pr.

He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him. Dut. Pr.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in the much. Jesus.

He that is full of himself is very empty. Pr.

He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. 10 Pr.

He that is not against us is on our part. Jesus.

He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich. Pr.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion. Whately.

He that is not with me is against me. Jesus.

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual 15 feast. Bible.

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. Troil. and Cress., ii. 3.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, / Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all. Othello, iii. 3.

He that is ready to slip is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. Bible.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city. Bible.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. 20 Bible.

He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. St. Paul.

He that is surety for another, is never sure himself. Pr.

He that is the inferior of nothing can be the superior of nothing, the equal of nothing. Carlyle.

He that is tied with one slender string, such as one resolute struggle would break, is prisoner only to his own sloth; and who would pity his thraldom? Decay of Piety.

He that is to-day a king, to-morrow shall die. 25 Ecclus.

He that is violent in the pursuit of pleasure won't mind to turn villain for the purchase. M. Aurelius.

He that is well-ordered and disposed within himself careth not for the strange and perverse behaviour of men. Thomas à Kempis.

He that keeks (pries) through a keyhole may see what will vex him. Sc. Pr.

He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul. Bible.

He that kills a man when he is drunk must be 30 hanged for it when he is sober. Pr.

He that knoweth not that which he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is a god amongst men. Pythagoras.

He that knows a little of the world will admire it enough to fall down and worship it; he that knows it most will most despise it. Colton.

He that knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Arouse him. Arabian Pr.

He that knows, and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him. Arabian Pr.

He that knows is strong. Gael. Pr. 35

He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is stupid. Shun him. Arabian Pr.

He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, is good. Teach him. Arabian Pr.

He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend. Sir H. Taylor.

He that lies down with dogs will rise up with fleas. Pr.

He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the 40 life of a sentinel, of a sentinel never relieved. Young.

He that lives longest sees most. Gael. Pr.

He that lives must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age. Johnson.

He that lives upon hopes will die fasting. Ben. Franklin.

He that lives with cripples learns to limp. Pr.

He that lives with wolves will learn to howl. 45 Pr.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Izaak Walton.

He that loves Christianity better than truth will soon love his own sect or party better than Christianity. Coleridge.

He that loves God aright must not desire that God should love him in return, i.e., love to God, as to man, should be entirely unselfish. Spinoza.

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. Isaac Barrow.

He that loveth danger shall perish therein. 50 Ecclus.

He that loveth father and mother more than me is not worthy of me. Jesus.

He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen? St. John.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. Bible.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase. Bible.

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be 55 innocent. Bible.

He that marries before he is wise will die before he thrive. Sc. Pr.

He that marries for money sells his liberty. Pr.

He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. Bible.

He that needs five thousand pound to live, / Is full as poor as he that needs but five. George Herbert.

He that never thinks can never be wise. Johnson.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; 5 and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Bible.

He that on pilgrimages goeth ever, / Becometh holy late or never. Pr.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. Bible.

He that pities another minds himsel'. Sc. Pr.

He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her doors. Ecclus.

He that promises too much means nothing. Pr. 10

He that purposes to be happy by the affection or acquaintance of the best, the greatest man alive, will always find his mind unsettled and perplexed. Thomas à Kempis.

He that questioneth much will learn much. Bacon.

He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour. W. Godwin.

He that ruleth among men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. Bible.

He that runs in the dark may well stumble. 15 Pr.

He that runs may read. Pr.

He that seeks others to beguile, / Is oft o'ertaken in his own wile. Pr.

He that seeks to have many friends never has any. It. Pr.

He that serves the altar should live by the altar. Pr.

He that shuts his eyes against a small light 20 would not be brought to see that which he had no mind to see, let it be placed in never so clear a light and never so near him. Atterbury.

He that sows in the highway loses his corn. Pr.

He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow. Pr.

He that spares the bad injures the good. Pr.

He that spares the rod spoils the child. Pr.

He that speaks the thing he should not / Must 25 often hear the thing he would not. Pr.

He that speaks the truth will find himself in sufficiently dramatic situations. Prof. Wilson.

He that spends his gear (property) before he gets it will hae little gude o't. Sc. Pr.

He that stands upon a slippery place / Makes nice of no vain hold to stay him up. King John, iii. 4.

He that steals a preen (pin) will steal a better thing. Sc. Pr.

He that steals for others will be hanged for 30 himself. Pr.

He that strikes with the sword shall perish by the sword. Pr.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green. Bacon.

He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both. Locke.

He that talks deceitfully for truth must hurt it more by his example than he promotes it by his arguments. Atterbury.

He that talks much errs much. Pr. 35

He that talks much lies much. Pr.

He that tholes (bears up) o'ercomes. Sc. Pr.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread. Bible.

He that turns not from every sin, turns not aright from any one sin. Brooks.

He that undervalues himself will undervalue 40 others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. Johnson.

He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. Johnson.

He that waits long at the ferry will get over some time. Gael. Pr.

He that walketh uprightly walks surely. Bible.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. Bible.

He that wants good sense is unhappy in having 45 learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. Steele.

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. As You Like It, iii. 2.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. Sallust.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a very long head or a very short creed. Colton.

He that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. Pope.

He that will have his son have a respect for 50 him must have a great reverence for his son. Locke.

He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Fuller.

He that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. St. Peter.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot, is a fool; and he that dare not, is a slave. Sir W. Drummond.

He that will not when he may, / When he will he shall have nay. Pr.

He that will not work shall not eat. Pr. 55

He that will to Cupar, maun to Cupar, i.e., he that will to jail, must to jail. Sc. Pr.

He that will watch Providence will never want a Providence to watch. Flavel.

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow. Bible.

He that winna be counselled canna be helped. Sc. Pr.

He that winna save a penny will ne'er hae 60 ony. Sc. Pr.

He that won't plough at home won't plough abroad. Gael. Pr.

He that would be rich in a year will be hanged in half a year. Pr.

He that would be singular in his apparel had need of something superlative to balance that affectation. Feltham.

He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hens. Pr.

He that would have his virtue published is not the servant of virtue, but of glory. Johnson.

He that would live in peace and rest / Must hear, and see, and say the best. Pr.

He that would reap well must sow well. 5 Pr.

He that would reckon up all the accidents preferments depend upon, may as well undertake to count the sands or sun up infinity. South.

He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low. Collier.

He that would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible. Goethe.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Burke.

He that wrongs his friend / Wrongs himself 10 more, and ever bears about / A silent court of justice in his breast, / Himself the judge and jury, and himself / The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. Tennyson.

He the cross who longest bears / Finds his sorrow's bounds are set. Winkworth.

He thinks no evil who means no evil. Gael. Pr.

He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

He thought as a sage though he felt as a man. J. Beattie.

He thought he thought, and yet he did not 15 think, / But only echoed still the common talk, / As might an empty room. Walter C. Smith.

He thought the World to him was known, / Whereas he only knew the Town; / In men this blunder still you find, / All think their little set—Mankind. Hannah More.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. Sir P. Sidney.

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, / And whistled as he went, for want of thought. Dryden.

He wants wit that wants resolved will. Two Gent. of Ver., ii. 6.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. 20 Swift.

He was a man, take him for all in all, / I shall not look upon his like again. Ham., i. 2.

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; / But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew / His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. Dryden.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

He was not of an age, but for all Time, / Sweet 25 Swan of Avon. Ben Jonson.

He was perfumed like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again. 1 Hen. IV., i. 3.

He was scant o' news that told that his father was hanged. Sc. Pr.

He was the Word that spake it; / He took the bread and brake it; / And what that Word did make it, / I do believe and take it. Dr. Donne.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. Much Ado, i. 1.

He wha eats but (only) ae dish seldom needs 30 the doctor. Sc. Pr.

He who asks a favour for another has the confidence which a sense of justice inspires; while he who solicits for himself experiences all the embarrassment and shame of one appealing for mercy. La Bruyère.

He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin. Pr.

He who begins with trusting every one will end with estimating every one a knave. Hebbel.

He who breaks confidence has for ever forfeited it. Schopenhauer.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to 35 duty approaches sublimity. Lavater.

He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can conceal his griefs. Lavater.

He who can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity or disgrace them by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank. Colton.

He who cannot bear foes deserves no friend. Schafer.

He 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.

He 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.

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 him 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 by their causes, and pays the 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 is America. Goethe.

Here our souls / Though amply blest, / Can never find, although they seek, / A perfect rest. Procter.

Here was a Caesar! when comes such another? Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

Here's a sigh for those who love me, / And a 20 smile for those who hate, / And whatever sky's above me, / Here's a heart for every fate. Byron.

Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, / Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow? Byron.

Hereditary honours are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. Plato.

Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, / From Macedonia's madman to the Swede. Pope.

Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character. Emerson.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul 25 over fear; fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation and death.... It is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. Amiel.

Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action. Hare.

Heroism, the Divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. Carlyle.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will for ever exist, universally among mankind. Carlyle.

Herradura que chacotea clavo le falta—A clattering hoof means a nail gone. Sp. Pr.

Herrenlos ist auch der Freiste nicht—Even 30 the most emancipated is not without a master. Schiller.

Herrschaft gewinn ich, Eigentum; / Die That ist alles, nichts der Ruhm—Lordship, aye ownership, is my conquest; the deed is everything, the fame of it nothing. Goethe.

Heu melior quanto sors tua sorte meâ!—Alas! how much better is your fate than mine! Ovid.

Heu nihil invitis fas quenquam fidere divis—Alas! it is not permitted to any one to feel confident when the gods are adverse. Virg.

Heu pietas! Heu prisca fides—Alas! for piety! Alas! for ancient faith! Virg.

Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere 35 vultu!—Alas! how difficult it is not to betray guilt by our looks! Ovid.

Heu! quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est!—Alas! how difficult is the custody of glory. Pub. Syr.

Heu! quam miserum est ab eo lædi, de quo non ausis queri—Alas! how galling is it to be injured by one against whom you dare make no complaint. Pub. Syr.

Heu quantum fati parva tabella vehit!—Ah! with what a weight of destiny is this one slight plank freighted! Ovid.

Heu! totum triduum!—What! three whole days of waiting! Ter.

Heureka—I have found it out. Gr. 40

Heureux commencement est la moitié de l'œuvre—A work well begun is half done. Fr. Pr.

Heute muss dem Morgen nichts borgen—To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow. Ger. Pr.

Heute roth, Morgen todt—- To-day red, to-morrow dead. Ger. Pr.

Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina tanta / Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescent—These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust. Virg.

Hiatus maxime deflendus—A deficiency or blank 45 very much to be deplored.

Hibernicis ipsis hibernior—More Irish than the Irish themselves.

Hic dies, vere mihi festus, atras / Eximet curas—This day, for me a true holiday, shall banish gloomy cares. Hor.

Hic est aut nusquam quod quærimus—Here or else nowhere is what we are aiming at. Hor.

Hic est mucro defensionis tuæ—This is the point of your defence. Cic.

Hic et nunc—Here and now. 50

Hic et ubique—Here and everywhere.

Hic finis fandi—Here let the conversation end.

Hic funis nihil attraxit—This bait has taken no fish; this scheme has not answered. Pr.

Hic gelidi fontes, hic mollia prata, Lycori, / Hic nemus, hic toto tecum consumerer ævo—Here are cool springs, Lycoris, here velvet meads, here a grove; here with thee could I pass my whole life. Virg.

Hic hæret aqua!—This is the difficulty (lit. here 5 the water (in the water-clock) stops).

Hic jacet—Here lies.

Hic locus est partes ubi se via findit in ambas—This is the spot where the way divides in two branches. Virg.

Hic murus aheneus esto, / Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa—Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of no guilt, to turn pale at no charge brought against us. Hor.

Hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto—This fellow is black; have a care of him, Roman. Hor.

Hic nigræ succus loliginis, hæc est / Ærugo 10 mera—This is the very venom of dark detraction; this is pure malignity. Hor.

Hic patet ingeniis campus, certusque merenti / Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis—Here is a field open for talent, and here merit will have certain favour, and industry be graced with its due reward. Claud.

Hic Rhodos, hic salta—Here is Rhodes; here leap.

Hic rogo, non furor est ne moriare mori?—I ask, is it not madness to die that you may not die? Mart.

Hic situs est Phaëton currus auriga paterni; / Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis—Here lies buried Phaëton, the driver of his father's car, which if he did not manage, still he perished in a great attempt. Ovid.

Hic transitus efficit magnum vitæ compendium—This 15 change effects a great saving of time (lit. life).

Hic ubi nunc urbs est, tum locus urbis erat—Here, where the city now stands, was at that time nothing but its site. Ovid.

Hic ver assiduum, atque alienis mensibus æstas—Here (in Italy) is ceaseless spring, and summer in months in which summer is alien. Virg.

Hic victor cæstus artemque repono—Here victorious I lay aside my cestus and my net. Virg.

Hic vigilans somniat—He sleeps awake. Plaut.

Hic vivimus ambitiosa / Paupertate omnes—We 20 all live here in a state of ostentatious poverty. Juv.

Hid jewels are but lost. Quarles.

Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich's sein—Here am I a man, here may I be one. Goethe.

Hier ist die Zeit durch Thaten zu beweisen, / Dass Manneswürde nicht der Götterhöhe weicht—Now is the time to show by deeds that the dignity of a man does not yield to the sublimity of the gods. Goethe.

Hier ist keine Heimat—Jeder treibt / Sich an dem andern rasch und fremd vorüber, / Und fragt nicht nach seinem Schmerz—Here is no home for a man: every one drives past another hastily and unneighbourly, and inquires not after his pain. Schiller.

Hier sitz' ich auf Rasen mit Veilchen bekränzt—Here 25 sit I upon the sward wreathed with violets. K. Schmidt.

Hier stehe ich! Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir! Amen—Here stand I. I cannot act otherwise. So help me God! Luther at the Diet of Worms.

Hier steht einer, der wird mich rächen—Here stands one who will avenge me. Frederick William of Prussia, pointing to his son.

High air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well-bedded in good logic mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge. Carlyle.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue. Metastasio.

High erected thoughts seated in the heart of 30 courtesy. Sir P. Sidney.

High houses are usually empty in the upper storey. Ger. Pr.

High is the head of the stag on the mountain crag. Gael. Pr.

High station has to be resigned in order to be appreciated. Pascal.

Hilarisque tamen cum pondere virtus—Virtue may be gay, yet with dignity. Statius.

Hilft Gott uns nicht, kein Kaiser kann uns 35 helfen—God helps us not; no emperor can. Schiller.

Hills peep o'er hills; and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Hilo y aguja, media vestidura—Needle and thread are half clothing. Sp. Pr.

Him only pleasure leads and peace attends, / Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends, / Whose means are fair and spotless as his ends. Wordsworth.

Him who makes chaff of himself the cows will eat. Arab. Pr.

Hin ist die Zeit, da Bertha spann—Gone is the 40 time when Queen Bertha span. Ger. Pr.

Hin ist hin! Verloren ist verloren—Gone is gone! Lost is lost. G. A. Bürger.

Hinc illæ lachrymæ—Hence these tears. Virg.

Hinc lucem et pocula sacra—Hence light to us and sacred draughts. M. of Cambridge University.

Hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum—To them (the gods) ascribe every undertaking, to them the issue. Hor.

Hinc subitæ mortes atque intestata senectus—Hence 45 (from sensual indulgence) sudden deaths and intestate old age. Juv.

Hinc totam infelix vulgatur fama per urbem—Hence the unhappy news is spread abroad through the whole city. Virg.

Hinc usura vorax, avidumque in tempore fænus, / Et concussa fides, et multis utile bellum—Hence (from the ambition of Cæsar) arise devouring usury, grasping interest, shaken credit, and war of advantage to many. Lucan.

Hinc venti dociles resono se carcere solvunt, / Et cantum accepta pro libertate rependunt—Hence the obedient winds are loosed from their sounding prison, and repay the liberty they have received with a tune. Of an organ.

His bark is waur nor (worse than) his bite. Sc. Pr.

His Christianity was muscular. Disraeli. 50

His failings lean'd to virtue's side. Goldsmith.

His kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread. As You Like It, iii. 4.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. Macaulay.

His lachrymis vitam damus, et miserescimus ultro—To these tears we grant him life, and pity him besides. Virg.

His legibus solutis respublica stare non potest—With these laws repealed, the republic cannot last. Cic.

His life was gentle, and the elements / So 5 mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, / And say to all the world: This was a man! Jul. Cæs., v. 5.

His nature is too noble for the world; / He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, / or Jove for his power to thunder. Coriolanus, iii. 2.

His nunc præmium est, qui recta prava faciunt—Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong. Ter.

His opinion who does not see spiritual agency in history is not worth any man's reading. Wm. Blake.

His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune. Pub. Syr.

His rash, fierce blaze of riot cannot last, / For 10 violent fires soon outburn themselves. Rich. II., ii. 1.

His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani munere—These offerings at least I would bestow upon him, and discharge a duty though it no longer avails. Virg.

His speech was like a tangled chain; / Nothing impaired, but all disordered. Mid. Night's Dream, v. 1.

His thoughts look through his words. Ben Jonson.

His time is for ever, everywhere his place. Cowley.

His tongue could make the worse appear the 15 better reason. Milton.

His tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels. Milton.

His very foot has music in 't, / As he comes up the stair. W. J. Mickle.

His wit invites you by his looks to come, / But when you knock, it never is at home. Cowper.

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 7.

Historia quo quomodo scripta delectat—History, 20 however written, is always a pleasure to us. Pliny.

Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. Carlyle.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Bacon.

History and experience prove that the most passionate characters are the most fanatically rigid in their feelings of duty, when their passion has been trained to act in that direction. J. S. Mill.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought. Carlyle.

History ensures for youth the understanding 25 of the ancients. Diodorus.

History has only to do with what is true, and what is only probable should be relegated to the imaginary domain of romance and poetical fiction. (?)

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. Shelley.

History is always written ex post facto.

History is an impertinence and an injury, if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming. Emerson.

History is an imprisoned epic, nay, an imprisoned 30 psalm and prophecy. Carlyle.

History is but a fable agreed on. Napoleon.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. Garfield.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Gibbon.

History is like sacred writing, for truth is essential to it. Cervantes.

History is made up of the bad actions of 35 extraordinary men. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions, have been extraordinary men, and nine-tenths of the calamities which have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires. Macaulay.

History is only a confused heap of facts. Chesterfield.

History is philosophy teaching by examples. Quoted by Bolingbroke.

History is properly nothing but a satire on mankind. C. J. Weber.

History is the true poetry. Carlyle.

History shows that the majority of the men 40 who have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. Heine.

History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution; if not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries. J. S. Mill.

Hitch your waggon to a star. Emerson.

Hitherto all miracles have been wrought by thought, and henceforth innumerable will be wrought; whereof we, even in these days, witness some. Carlyle.

Hitherto doth love on fortune tend; / For who not needs, shall never lack a friend; / And who in want a hollow friend doth try, / Directly seasons him his enemy. Ham., iii. 2.

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and 45 here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Bible.

Hizonos Dios, y maravillámonos nos—God made us, and we admire ourselves. Sp. Pr.

Hobbes clearly proves that every creature / Lives in a state of war by nature. Swift.

"Hoc age" is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts. Johnson.

Hoc age—Mind what you are about (lit. do this).

Hoc erat in more majorum—This was the custom 50 of our forefathers.

Hoc erat in votis; modus agri non ita magnus; / Hortus ubi, et tecto vicinus juris aquæ fons, / Et paulum silvæ super his foret—This was ever my chief prayer: a piece of ground not too large, with a garden, and a spring of never-failing water near my house, and a little woodland besides. Hor.

Hoc est quod palles? cur quis non prandeat, hoc est?—Is it for this you look so pale? is this a reason why one should not dine? Pers.

Hoc est / Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui—To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice. Martial.

Hoc fonte derivata clades, / In patriam, populumque fluxit—From this source the disaster flowed that has overwhelmed the nation and the people. Hor.

Hoc genus omne—All persons of that kind. 5

Hoc Herculi Iovis satu edito' potuit fortasse contingere, nobis non item—This might perchance happen to Hercules, of the seed royal of Jove, but not to us. Cic.

Hoc loco—In this place.

Hoc maxime officii est, ut quisquis maxime opus indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari—It is our prime duty to aid him first who most stands in need of our assistance. Cic.

Hoc opus, hic labor est—This is a work, this is a toil. Virg.

Hoc patrium est, potius consuefacere filium / 10 Sua sponte recte facere, quam alieno metu—It is a father's duty to accustom his son to act rightly of his own free-will rather than from fear of the consequences. Ter.

Hoc pretium ob stultitiam fero—This reward I gain for my folly. Ter.

Hoc scito, nimio celerius / Venire quod molestum est, quam id quod cupide petas—Be sure of this, that that which is disagreeable comes more speedily than that which you eagerly desire. Plaut.

Hoc signo vinces—By this sign (the cross) you will conquer. M.

Hoc virtutis opus—This is virtue's work. M.

Hoc volo, hoc jubeo; sit pro ratione voluntas—This 15 I wish, this I require: be my will instead of reason. Juv.

Hodie mihi, cras tibi—My turn to-day, yours to-morrow.

Hodie nihil, cras credo—To-morrow I will trust, not to-day. Varro.

Hodie vivendum amissa præteritorum cura—Let us live to-day, forgetting the cares that are past. An Epicurean maxim.

Hoi polloi—The multitude. Gr.

Hoist up the sail while gale doth last—/ Tide 20 and wind wait no man's pleasure! / Seek not time when time is past—/ Sober speed is wisdom's leisure! Southwell.

Hold all the skirts of thy mantle extended when heaven is raining gold. Eastern Pr.

Hold the living dear and honour the dead. Goethe.

Hold their farthing candle to the sun. Young, of critics.

Hold thou the good; define it well. Tennyson.

Hold up thy head; the taper lifted high / 25 Will brook the wind when lower tapers die. Quarles.

Holy fields, / Over whose acres walked those blessed feet / Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross. 1 Hen. IV., i. 1.

Holy men at their death have good inspirations. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

Hombre de barba—A man of intelligence. Sp.

Hombre pobre todo es trazas—A poor man is all schemes. Sp. Pr.

Home, in one form or another, is the great 30 object of life. J. G. Holland.

Home is heaven for beginners. C. H. Parkhurst.

Home is home, be it never so homely. Pr.

Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. Ruskin.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. Ward Beecher.

Home, the nursery of the infinite. Channing. 35

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Two Gent. of Ver., i. 1.

Homer's Epos has not ceased to be true; yet is no longer our Epos, but shines in the distance, if clearer and clearer, yet also smaller and smaller, like a receding star. It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that 'twas a sun.... For all things, even celestial luminaries, much more atmospheric meteors, have their rise, their culmination, their decline. Carlyle.

Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius / Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putat—Nothing so unjust as your ignorant man, who thinks nothing right but what he himself has done. Ter.

Hominem non odi sed ejus vitia—I do not hate the man, but his vices. Mart.

Hominem pagina nostra sapit—My pages concern 40 man. Mart.

Hominem quæro—I am in quest of a man. Phædr. after Diogenes.

Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando—In nothing do men so nearly approach the gods as in giving health to men. Cic.

Homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt: longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla—Men trust their eyes rather than their ears: the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. Sen.

Homines nihil agendo discunt male agere—By doing nothing men learn to do ill. Cato.

Homines plus in alieno negotio videre, quam 45 in suo—Men see better into other people's business than their own. Sen.

Homines proniores sunt ad voluptatem, quam ad virtutem—Men are more prone to pleasure than to virtue. Cic.

Homines, quo plura habent, eo cupiunt ampliora—The more men have, the more they want. Justin.

Homini necesse est mori—Man must die. Cic.

Homini ne fidas nisi cum quo modium satis absumpseres—Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, i.e., known him so long as you might have done so. Pr.

Hominibus plenum, amicis vacuum—Full of men, vacant of friends. Sen.

Hominis est errare, insipientis perseverare—It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error.

Hominum sententia fallax—The opinions of men are fallible. Ovid.

Homme assailli à demi vaincu—A man assailed is half overpowered. Fr.

Homme chiche jamais riche—A niggardly man 5 is always poor. Fr. Pr.

Homme d'affaires—A business man. Fr.

Homme d'esprit—A witty man. Fr.

Homme d'état—A statesman. Fr.

Homme d'honneur—A man of honour. Fr.

Homme instruit—A learned or literary man. 10 Fr.

Homo ad res perspicacior Lynceo vel Argo, et oculeus totus—A man more clear-sighted for business than Lynceus or Argus, and eyes all over. Apul.

Homo antiqua virtute ac fide—A man of the old-fashioned virtue and loyalty. Ter.

Homo constat ex duabus partibus, corpore et anima, quorum una est corporea, altera ab omni materiæ concretione sejuncta—Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter. Cic.

Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet—A learned man has always riches in himself. Phædr.

Homo extra est corpus suum cum irascitur—A 15 man when angry is beside himself. Pub. Syr.

Homo fervidus et diligens ad omnia paratur—The man who is earnest and diligent is prepared for all things. Thomas à Kempis.

Homo homini aut deus aut lupus—Man is to man either a god or a wolf. Erasmus.

Homo is a common name to all men. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1.

Homo multarum literarum—A man of many letters, i.e., of extensive learning.

Homo multi consilii et optimi—A man always 20 ready to give his advice, and that the most judicious.

Homo nullius coloris—A man of no party.

Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, / Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit; / Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit—He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. Cic.

Homo solus aut deus aut demon—Man alone is either a god or a devil.

Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto—I am a man, and I reckon nothing human alien to me. Ter.

Homo toties moritur, quoties amittit suos—A 25 man dies as often as he loses his relatives. Pub. Syr.

Homo trium literarum—A man of three letters, i.e., FUR, "a thief." Plaut.

Homo unius libri—A man of one book. Thomas Aquinas' definition of a learned man.

Homunculi quanti sunt, cum recogito—What poor creatures we men are, when I think of it. Plaut.

Honest labour bears a lovely face. T. Dekker.

Honest men marry soon, wise men never. Sc. 30 Pr.

Honesta mors turpi vita potior—An honourable death is better than an ignominious life. Tac.

Honesta paupertas prior quam opes malæ—Poverty with honour is better than ill-gotten wealth. Pr.

Honesta quædam scelera successus facit—Success makes some species of crimes honourable. Sen.

Honesta quam splendida—Honourable rather than showy. M.

Honestum non est semper quod licet—What is 35 lawful is not always honourable. L.

Honestum quod vere dicimus, etiamsi a nullo laudatur, laudabile est sua natura—That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. Cic.

Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that is the last of it. Amer. Pr.

Honesty is the best policy. Pr.

Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich man's pudding. Pr.

Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be 40 an ill pennyworth. Sc. Pr.

Honi soit qui mal y pense—Evil be to him that evil thinks. Royal M. Fr.

Honnêtes gens—Upright people. Fr.

Honneur et patrie—Honour and country. M.

Honor Deo—Honour be to God. M.

Honor est præmium virtutis—Honour is the 45 reward of virtue. Cic.

Honor fidelitatis præmium—Honour is the reward of fidelity. M.

Honor sequitur fugientem—Honour follows him who flies from her. M.

Honores mutant mores—Honours change manners.

Honos alit artes, omnesque incenduntur ad studia gloria—Honours encourage the arts, for all are incited towards studies by fame. Cic.

Honour a physician with the honour due unto 50 him for the uses which ye may have of him, for the Lord hath created him. Ecclus.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. St. Peter.

Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows. Pr.

Honour hath no skill in surgery.... Honour is a mere scutcheon. 1 Hen. IV., v. 1.

Honour is nobler than gold. Gael. Pr.

Honour is not a virtue in itself; it is the mail 55 behind which the virtues fight more securely. G. H. Calvert.

Honour is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. Colton.

Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. Emerson.

Honour to whom honour is due. St. Paul.

Honour travels in a strait so narrow, / Where one but goes abreast. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Honour won't patch. Gael. Pr. 60

Honourable (Ehrlich) is a word of high rank, and implies much more than most people attach to it. Arndt.

Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but gold and silver will pass all the world over, without any other recommendation than their own weight. Sterne.

Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt. Goldsmith, of himself.

Honour's the moral conscience of the great. D'Avenant.

Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris—Sheepish as a fox that has been taken in by a fowl. La Font.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Bible. 5

Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Merry Wives, ii. 1.

Hope is a good anchor, but it needs something to grip. Pr.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, / And manage it against despairing thoughts. Two Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend. He'll do on a pinch for your travelling companion, but he's not the man for your banker. Amer. Pr.

Hope is a waking man's dream. Pr. 10

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. Johnson.

Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for your travelling companion. Haliburton.

Hope is the best part of our riches. Bovee.

Hope is the only good which is common to all men. Thales.

Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollection 15 is its golden tinge; but the latter is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky shades of twilight, and the bright blue day which the former promises breaks indeed, but in another world and with another sun. Jean Paul.

Hope never comes that comes to all. Milton.

Hope never spread her golden wings but in unfathomable seas. Emerson.

Hope not wholly to reason away your troubles; but do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Johnson.

Hope, of all ills that men endure, / The only cheap and universal cure. Cowley.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; / 20 Man never is, but always to be, blest. Pope.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. Burns.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. Quoted by Swinburne.

Hope to joy is little less in joy / Than hope enjoyed. Rich. II., ii. 3.

Hoping and waiting is not my way of doing things. Goethe.

Hora e sempre—Now and always. M. 25

Horæ cedunt, et dies, et menses, et anni, nec præteritum tempus unquam revertitur—Hours and days, months and years, pass away, and time once past never returns. Cic.

Horæ / Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta—In a moment of time comes sudden death or joyful victory. Hor.

Horas non numero nisi serenas—I mark no hours but the shining ones. Of a dial.

Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam; / Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes—As ants never bend their way to empty barns, so no friend will visit departed wealth. Ovid.

Horresco referens—I shudder as I relate. Virg. 30

Horribile dictu—Horrible to relate.

Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent—Everywhere horror seizes the soul, and the very silence is dreadful. Virg.

Horror vacui—Abhorrence of a vacuum.

Hors de combat—Out of condition to fight. Fr.

Hors de propos—Not to the purpose. Fr. 35

Hortus siccus—A dry garden; a collection of dried plants.

Hos successus alit; possunt quia posse videntur—These are encouraged by success; they prevail because they think they can. Virg.

Hospice d'accouchement—A maternity hospital. Fr.

Hospice d'allaitement—A foundling hospital. Fr.

Hospitality must be for service, not for show, 40 or it pulls down the host. Emerson.

Hostis est uxor invita quæ ad virum nuptum datur—The wife who is given in marriage to a man against her will becomes his enemy. Plaut.

Hostis honori invidia—Envy is honour's foe. M.

Hôtel de ville—A town-hall. Fr.

Hôtel Dieu—The house of God; the name of an hospital. Fr.

Household words. Hen. V., iv. 3. 45

Housekeeping without a wife is a lantern without a light. Pr.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. Bacon.

How are riches the means of happiness? In acquiring they create trouble, in their loss they occasion sorrow, and they are the cause of endless divisions amongst kindred! Hitopadesa.

How beautiful is death, seeing that we die in a world of life and of creation without end! Jean Paul.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams, / 50 With its allusions, aspirations, dreams! / Book of beginnings, story without end, / Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend. Longfellow.

How beautiful to die of a broken heart on paper! Quite another thing in practice! Every window of your feeling, even of your intellect, as it were begrimed, so that no pure ray can enter; a whole drug-shop in your inwards; the foredone soul drowning slowly in a quagmire of disgust. Carlyle.

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! As You Like It, v. 2.

How blessed might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom and fidelity to Heaven and one another were adequately great. Carlyle, apropos to his life at Craigenputtock.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight! Young.

How blest the humble cotter's fate! / He woos his simple dearie; / The silly bogles, wealth, and state, / Can never make them eerie. Burns.

How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed? Confucius.

How can he be godly who is not cleanly? Pr.

How can man love but what he yearns to help? Browning.

How can we expect a harvest of thought 5 who have not had a seed-time of character? Thoreau.

How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee. Goethe.

How charming is divine philosophy! Milton.

How creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to the plainest facts, and by the mere inertia of oblivion and stupidity live at ease in the midst of wonders and terrors. Carlyle.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness. B. R. Haydon.

How dire is love when one is so tortured; and 10 yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves. Goethe.

How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower. Watts.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, / As though to breathe were life. Tennyson.

How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed! Mme. Necker.

How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

How fast has brother followed / From sunshine 15 to the sunless land. Wordsworth.

How few think justly of the thinking few; / How many never think, who think they do! Jane Taylor.

How foolish and absurd, nay, how hurtful and destructive a vice is ambition, which, by undue pursuit of honour, robs us of true honour! Thomas à Kempis.

How forcible are right words! Bible.

How fortunate beyond all others is the man who, in order to adjust himself to fate, is not required to cast away his whole preceding life! Goethe.

How full of briers is this working-day world! 20 As You Like It, i. 3.

How glorious a character appears when it is penetrated with mind and soul. Goethe.

How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ / All the heart, and the soul, and the senses for ever in joy! Browning.

How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away! Gay.

How happy is he born or taught / That serveth not another's will; / Whose armour is his honest thought, / And simple truth his utmost skill. Sir Henry Wotton.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! / 25 The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Pope.

How happy is the prince who has counsellors near him who can guard him against the effects of his own angry passions; their names shall be read in golden letters when the history of his reign is perused. Scott.

How happy should we be... / If we from self could rest, / And feel at heart that One above, / In perfect wisdom, perfect love, / Is working for the best! Anstice.

How hard it is (for the Byron, for the Burns), whose ear is quick for celestial messages, to "take no counsel with flesh and blood," and instead of living and writing for the day that passes over them, live and write for the eternity that rests and abides over them! Carlyle.

How hardly man the lesson learns, / To smile, and bless the hand that spurns: / To see the blow, to feel the pain, / And render only love again! Anon.

How hardly shall they who have riches enter 30 into the kingdom of God! Jesus.

How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester. 2 Hen. IV., v. 5.

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil! Carlyle.

How is each of us so lonely in the wide bosom of the All? Jean Paul.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning. Swift.

How little do the wantonly or idly officious 35 think what mischief they do by their malicious insinuations, indirect impertinence, or thoughtless babblings! Burns.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. Ovid.

How long halt ye between two opinions? Bible.

How long I have lived, how much lived in vain! / How little of life's scanty span may remain! / What aspects old Time in his progress has worn! / What ties cruel fate in my bosom has torn! / How foolish, or worse, till our summit is gain'd! / And downward, how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd! Burns.

How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown! Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

How many causes that can plead for themselves 40 in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man, have no word to utter! Carlyle.

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars! / Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.

How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days! Middleton.

How many illustrious and noble heroes have lived too long by a day! Rousseau.

How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! Holmes.

How many people make themselves abstract 45 to appear profound! The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. Joubert.

How many things by season season'd are / To their right praise and true perfection! Mer. of Venice, v. 1.

How many things, just and unjust, have no higher sanction than custom! Ter.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! Cowper.

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! Bible.

How much better it is to weep at joy than to 5 joy at weeping! Much Ado, i. 4.

How much easier it is to be generous than just! Junius.

How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man. Carlyle.

How much the wife is dearer than the bride! Lyttelton.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great. Jean Paul.

How noble is heroic insight without words in 10 comparison to the adroitest flow of words without heroic insight! Carlyle.

How noiseless is thought! No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage-waggons, attends its movements; in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating which is one day to be crowned with more than imperial authority; for kings and emperors will be among its ministering servants; it will rule not over, but in all heads, and bend the world to its will. Carlyle.

How oft do they their silver bowers leave / To come to succour us that succour want! Spenser.

How one is vexed with little things in this life! The great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. Mrs. Carlyle.

How paint to the sensual eye what passes in the holy-of-holies of man's soul; in what words, known to these profane times, speak even afar-off of the unspeakable? Carlyle.

How poor are they that have not patience! / 15 What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Othello, ii. 3.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Pope, after Homer.

How quick to know, but how slow to put in practice, is the human creature! Goethe.

How quickly Nature falls into revolt / When gold becomes her object! 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

How rarely reason guides the stubborn 20 choice, / Rules the bold hand or prompts the suppliant voice. Johnson.

How ready some people are to admire in a great man the exception rather than the rule of his conduct! Such perverse worship is like the idolatry of barbarous nations, who can see the noonday splendour of the sun without emotion, but who, when he is in eclipse, come forward with hymns and cymbals to adore him. Canning.

How rich a man is, all desire to know, / But none enquire if good he be or no. Herrick.

How sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs! Dante.

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, / How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun! Young.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or 25 draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life? Emerson.

How shall he give kindling in whose inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder? Carlyle.

How shall we know whether you are in earnest, if the deed does not accompany the word? Schiller.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child! King Lear, i. 4.

How small a part of time they share / That are so wondrous sweet and fair! E. Waller.

How small, of all that human hearts endure, / 30 That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! / Still to ourselves, in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson.

How should he be easy who makes other men's cares his own? Thomas à Kempis.

How should thy virtue be above the shocks and shakings of temptation, when even the angels kept not their first estate, and man in Paradise so soon fell from innocence? Thomas à Kempis.

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, / Like softest music to attending ears! Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

How soon "not now" becomes "never!" Luther.

How sour sweet music is, when time is broke 35 and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. Rich. II., v. 5.

How still the evening is, / As hushed on purpose to grace harmony! Much Ado, ii. 3.

How sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from a stranger's mouth! Goethe.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds of music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night / Become the touches of sweet harmony. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

How the sight of means to do ill deeds / Make deeds ill done! King John, iv. 2.

How the world wags! As You Like It, ii. 7. 40

How they gleam like spirits through the shadows of innumerable eyes from their thrones in the boundless depths of heaven! Carlyle, on the stars.

How use doth breed habit in a man! Two Gent. of Ver., v. 4.

How vainly seek / The selfish for that happiness denied / To aught but virtue! Shelley.

How we clutch at shadows (in this dream-world) as if they were substances, and sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most awake! Carlyle.

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / 45 Seem to me all the uses of this world. Ham., i. 2.

How well he's read, to reason against reading! Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true, otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. Carlyle.

How wonderful is Death, / Death and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn, / When, throned on ocean's wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful. Shelley.

How wounding a spectacle is it to see those who were by Christ designed for fishers of men, picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly wrangling about them too! Decay of Piety.

How wretched is the man that hangs on by the favours of the great! Burns.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me / 'Tis only noble 5 to be good. / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson.

However, an old song, though to a proverb an instance of insignificance, is generally the only coin a poet has to pay with. Burns.

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. La Roche.

However far a man goes, he must start from his own door. Pr.

However varied the forms of destiny, the same element are always present. Schopenhauer.

Howsoever thou actest, let heaven be moved 10 with thy purpose; let the aim of thy deeds traverse the axis of the earth. Schiller.

Huc propius me, / Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite—Come near me all in order, and I will convince you that you are mad, every one. Hor.

Huic maxime putamus malo fuisse nimiam opinionem ingenii atque virtutis—This I think to have been the chief cause of his misfortune, an overweening estimate of his own genius and valour. Nep., of Themistocles.

Huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres, quodcunque ageret—This man's genius was so versatile, so equal to every pursuit, that you would pronounce him to have been born for whatever thing he was engaged on. Livy, on the elder Cato.

Human action is a seed of circumstances (Verhängnissen) scattered in the dark land of the future and hopefully left to the powers that rule human destiny. Schiller.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, 15 elude the barriers of system. George Eliot.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. Swift.

Human courage should rise to the height of human calamity. Gen. Lee.

Human creatures will not go quite accurately together, any more than clocks will. Carlyle.

Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. Sen.

Human intellect, if you consider it well, is the 20 exact summary of human worth. Carlyle.

Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable. W. Winter.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. Greville.

Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer. S. Osgood.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed. Johnson.

Human life is more governed by fortune than 25 by reason. Hume.

Human nature in its fulness is necessarily human; without love, it is inhuman; without sense (nous), inhuman; without discipline, inhuman. Ruskin.

Human nature... / Is not a punctual presence, but a spirit / Diffused through time and space. Wordsworth.

Human nature (Menschheit) we owe to father and mother, but our humanity (Menschlichkeit) we owe to education. Weber.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. Luther.

Human society is made up of partialities. 30 Emerson.

Humani nihil alienum—Nothing that concerns man is indifferent to me. M.

Humanität sei unser ewig Ziel—Be humanity evermore our goal. Goethe.

Humanitati qui se non accommodat, / Plerumque pœnas oppetit superbiæ—He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. Phædr.

Humanity is about the same all the world over. Donn Piatt.

Humanity is better than gold. Goldsmith. 35

Humanity is constitutionally lazy. J. G. Holland.

Humanity is great but men are small. Börne.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Jean Paul.

Humanity is one, and not till Lazarus is cured of his sores will Dives be safe. Celia Burleigh.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity 40 of a man. Adam Smith.

Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est—It is natural to love, and it is natural also to forgive. Plaut.

Humanum est errare—To err is human.

Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity. St. Augustine.

Humbleness is always grace, always dignity. Lowell.

Humiles laborant ubi potentes dissident—The 45 humble are in danger when those in power disagree. Phædr.

Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead. Collier.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. Selden.

Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding good influence, that we can scarce purchase it too dear. Thomas à Kempis.

Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. La Roche.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. La Roche.

Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom. Jeremy Collier.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible vicissitudes of life. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. Confucius.

Humility, that low, sweet root / From which 5 all heavenly virtues shoot. Moore.

Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. Carlyle.

Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. Carlyle.

Humour is consistent with pathos, while wit is not. Coleridge.

Humour is of a genial quality and is closely allied to pity. Henry Giles.

Humour is properly the exponent of low 10 things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind. Carlyle.

Humour is the mistress of tears. Thackeray.

Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. Whipple.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one. Ruskin.

Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy. Pr.

Hunger is a good cook. Gael. Pr. 15

Hunger is the best sauce. Pr.

Hunger will break through stone walls. Pr.

Hungry bellies have no ears. Pr.

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. Wordsworth.

Hunters generally know the most vulnerable 20 part of the beast they pursue by the care which every animal takes to defend the side which is weakest. Goldsmith.

Hunting was the labour of savages in North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. Johnson.

Hurtar el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios—To steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's sake. Sp. Pr.

Husbands can earn money, but only wives can save it. Pr.

Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly. Ham., i. 2.

Hypotheses non fingo—I frame no hypotheses. 25 Sir Isaac Newton.

[Greek: Haploun to dikaion, rhadion to alêthes]—Justice is simple, truth easy. Lycurgus.

Hypothesen sind Wiegenlieder, womit der Lehrer seine Schüler einlullt—Hypotheses are the lullabies with which the teacher lulls his scholars to sleep. Goethe.

Hysteron proteron—The last first, or the cart before the horse. Gr.