H._Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

=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