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.