love neither himself nor his own things, but
only what is just, whether it happens to be
done by himself or by another.= _Plato._
=He who is a fool and knows it is not very far
from being a wise man.= _J. B. (Selkirk)._
=He who is conscious of guilt cannot bear the= 5
=innocence of others: he tries to reduce other
characters to his own level.= _C. Fox._
=He who is deficient in the art of selection may,
by showing nothing but the truth, produce
all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It
perpetually happens that one writer tells less
truth than another, merely because he tells
more truth.= _Macaulay._
=He who is destitute of principles is governed,
theoretically and practically, by whims.=
_Jacobi._
=He who is firm in his will moulds the world to
himself.= _Goethe._
=He who is good has no kind of envy.= _Plato._
=He who is in disgrace with the sovereign is= 10
=disrespected by all.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his
own resources, is a noble but a rare being.=
_Sir E. Brydges._
=He who is most slow in making a promise is
the most faithful in the performance of it.=
_Rousseau._
=He who is moved to tears by every word of a
priest is generally a weakling and a rascal
when the feeling evaporates.= _Fr. v. Sallet._
=He who is not possessed of such a book as
will dispel many doubts, point out hidden
treasures, and is, as it were, a mirror of all
things, is even an ignorant man.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who is of no use to himself is of no use to= 15
=any one.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who is one with himself is everything.=
_Auerbach._
=He who is only half instructed speaks much,
and is always wrong; he who knows it
wholly, is content with acting, and speaks
seldom or late.= _Goethe._
=He who is only just is stern; he who is only
wise lives in gloom.= _Voltaire._
=He who is servant to= (_dient_) =the public is a
poor animal= (_Thier_); =he torments himself,
and nobody thanks him for it.= _Goethe._
=He who is suave with all= (_lieblich thun mit_ 20
_allen will_) =gets on with none: he pleases no
one who tries to please thousands.= _Bodenstedt._
=He who is the master of all opinions never can
be the bigot of any.= _W. R. Alger._
=He who is too much afraid of being duped
has lost the power of being magnanimous.=
_Amiel._
=He who is weighty is willing to be weighed.=
_Pr._
=He who is willing to work finds it hard to
wait.= _Pr._
=He who knows himself well will very soon= 25
=learn to know all other men: it is all reflection=
(_Zurückstrahlung_). _Lichtenberg._
=He who knows how to sunder jest and earnest
is a wise man, and who by cheerful playfulness
reinvigorates himself for strenuous
diligence.= _Rückert._
=He who knows not the world, knows not his
own place in it.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=He who knows right principles is not equal to
him who loves them.= _Confucius._
=He who laughs at crooked men should need
walk very straight.= _Pr._
=He who laughs can commit no deadly sin.= 30
_Goethe's Mother._
=He who lays out for God lays up for himself.=
_Pr._
=He who learns and makes no use of his learning
is a beast of burden with a load of books.=
_Saadi._
=He who learns the rules of wisdom without
conforming to them in his life, is like a man
who labours in his fields but does not sow.=
_Saadi._
=He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.= _Pr._
=He who lives, and strives, and suffers for others= 35
=dear to him, is to be envied; he who lives
only for himself is poor.= _H. Lingg._
=He who lives to no purpose lives to a bad purpose.=
_Nevius._
=He who lives wisely to himself and his own
heart looks at the busy world through the
loopholes of retreat, and does not want to
mingle in the fray.= _Hazlitt._
=He who loses wealth loses much, who loses a
friend loses more, who loses his spirits loses
all.= _Sp. Pr._
=He who loves goodness harbours angels, reveres
reverence, and lives with God.= _Emerson._
=He who loves not books before he comes to= 40
=thirty years of age will hardly love them
enough afterwards to understand them.=
_Clarendon._
=He who loves with purity considers not the
gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=He who makes claims= (_Ansprüche_), =shows
by doing so that he has none to make.=
_Seume._
=He who makes constant complaint gets little
compassion.= _Pr._
=He who makes religion his first object makes
it his whole object.= _Ruskin._
=He who means to teach others may indeed= 45
=often suppress the best of what he knows,
but he must not himself be half-instructed.=
_Goethe._
=He who mistrusts humanity is quite as often
deceived as he who trusts men.= _Jean Paul._
=He who mocks the infant's faith / Shall be
mock'd in age and death.= _Wm. Blake._
=He who never in his life was foolish was never
a wise man.= _Heine._
=He who obeys is almost always better than
he who commands.= _Renan._
=He who offers God a second place offers Him= 50
=no place.= _Ruskin._
=He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor.=
_Holmes._
=He who overcomes his egoism rids himself of
the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the
way to all true greatness and all true happiness.=
_Cötvös._
=He who partakes in another's joys is more
humane than he who partakes in his griefs.=
_Lavater._
=He who parts with his property before his
death may prepare himself for bitter experiences.=
_Fr. Pr._
=He who pleased everybody died before he was
born.= _Pr._
=He who praises everybody praises nobody.= 5
_Johnson._
=He who promises runs in debt.= _Talmud._
=He who reaches the goal receives the crown,
and often he who deserves it goes without it.=
_Goethe._
=He who receives a sacrament does not perform
a good work; he receives a benefit.=
_Luther._
=He who reforms himself has done more towards
reforming the public than a crowd of
noisy impotent patriots.= _Lavater._
=He who says, "I sought, yet I found not,"= 10
=be sure he lies; he who says, "I sought not
and found," be sure he deceives; he who
says, "I sought and found," him believe--he
speaks true.= _Rückert._
=He who says what he likes must hear what
he does not like.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who scrubs every pig he sees will not long
be clean himself.= _Pr._
=He who seeks only for applause from without
has all his happiness in another's keeping.=
_Goldsmith._
=He who seeks the truth should be of no country.=
_Voltaire._
=He who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth= 15
=a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.=
_Sir P. Sidney._
=He who sends mouths will send meat.= _Pr._
=He who serves God serves a good Master.= _Pr._
=He who serves the public serves a fickle master.=
_Dut. Pr._
=He who serves under reason anticipates
necessity.= _Herder._
=He who speaks sows; he who keeps silence= 20
=reaps.= _It. Pr._
=He who spends himself for all that is noble,
and gains by nothing but what is just, will
hardly be notably wealthy or distressfully
poor.= _Plato._
=He who stays in the valley will never cross
the mountain.= _Pr._
=He who steals an egg would steal an ox.=
_Pr._
=He who strikes terror into others is himself in
continual fear.= _Claudian._
=He who tastes every man's broth often burns= 25
=his mouth.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a
task he undertakes, for he must be forced to
invent twenty more to maintain that one.=
_Pope._
=He who tells the failings of others to you will
be ready to tell your failings to others.=
_Turk. Pr._
=He who the sword of Heaven will bear / Should
be as holy as severe.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.
=He who thinks for himself, and imitates rarely,
is a free man.= _Klopstock._
=He who thinks his place below him will certainly= 30
=be below his place.= _Saville._
=He who thinks to save anything by his religion
besides his soul will be a loser in the
end.= _Bp. Barlow._
=He who thinks too much will accomplish little.=
_Schiller._
=He who traces nothing of God in his own soul
will never find God in the world of matter--mere
circlings of force there of iron regulation,
of universal death and merciless indifferency.=
_Carlyle._
=He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat
which he does not carry, travels away
from himself, and grows old even in youth
among old things.= _Emerson._
=He who trusts a secret to his servant makes= 35
=his own man his master.= _Dryden._
=He who waits for dead men's shoes may go
barefoot.= _Pr._
=He who wants any help or prop, in addition
to the internal evidences of its truth for his
belief, never was and never will be a Christian.=
_B. R. Haydon._
=He who wants everything must know many
things, do many things to procure even a
few; different from him whose indispensable
knowledge is this only, that a finger will
pull the bell!= _Carlyle._
=He who will be great must collect himself;
only in restriction does the master show
himself.= _Goethe._
=He who will deaden one half of his nature to= 40
=invigorate the other half will become at best
a distorted prodigy.= _Sir J. Stephen._
=He who will do faithfully needs to believe
firmly.= _Carlyle._
=He who will eat the nut must crack it.= _Frisian
Pr._
=He who will not be ruled by the rudder must
be ruled by the rock.= _Cornish Pr._
=He who will sell his fame will also sell the
public interest.= _Solon._
=He who will work aright must not trouble= 45
=himself about what is ill done, but only do
well himself.= _Goethe._
=He who wills all, wills in effect nothing, and
brings it to nothing.= _Hegel._
=He who wishes to secure the good of others
has already secured his own.= _Confucius._
=He who works with symbols merely is a
pedant, a hypocrite, and a bungler.= _Goethe._
=He who would be everywhere will be nowhere.=
_Dan. Pr._
=He who would bring home the wealth of the= 50
=Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies
with him.= _Sp. Pr._
=He who would climb the ladder must begin
at the bottom.= _Ger. Pr._
=He who would gather honey must brave the
sting of the bees.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who would gather roses must not fear
thorns.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who would not be frustrate of his hope
to write well hereafter in laudable things
ought himself to be a true poem.= _Milton._
=He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees= 55
=a counterfeit.= _Dryden._
=He who would rule must hear and be deaf,
must see and be blind.= _Ger. Pr._
=He who would write heroic poems must make
his whole life a heroic poem.= _Milton, quoted
by Carlyle._
=He whom God has gifted with a love of retirement
possesses, as it were, an extra sense.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=He whom God steers sails safely.= _Pr._
=He whom the inevitable cannot overcome is= 5
=unconquerable.= _Epictetus._
=He whom toil has braced or manly play, / As
light as air each limb, each thought as clear
as day.= _Thomson._
=He whose actions sink him even beneath the
vulgar has no right to those distinctions
which should be the reward only of merit.=
_Goldsmith._
=He whose days are passed away without giving
or enjoying, puffing like the bellows of a
blacksmith, liveth but by breathing.= _Hitopadesa._
=He whose goodness is part of himself is what
is called a real man.= _Mencius._
=He whose sympathy goes lowest is the man= 10
=from whom kings have the most to fear.=
_Emerson._
=He whose understanding can discern what is,
and judge what should or should not be
applied to prevent misfortune, never sinketh
under difficulties.= _Hitopadesa._
=He whose word and deed you cannot predict,
who answers you without any supplication
in his eye, who draws his determination
from within, and draws it instantly,--that
man rules.= _Emerson._
=He whose work is on the highway will have
many advisers.= _Sp. Pr._
=He will never have true friends who is afraid
of making enemies.= _Hazlitt._
=He will never set the Thames on fire.= _Pr._ 15
=He would fain fly, but wants wings.= _Pr._
=He works hard who has nothing to do.= _Pr._
=He wrought all kind of service with a noble
ease / That graced the lowliest act in doing
it.= _Tennyson._
=He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he
can't perceive, / And he's a fool who tries to
make such a blockhead believe.= _Wm. Blake._
=He's a man who dares to be / Firm for truth= 20
=when others flee.= _Pr._
=He's a silly body that's never missed.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's a wise man wha can take care o' himsel'.=
_Sc. Pr._
=He's armed without that's innocent within.=
_Pope._
=He's idle that may be better employed.= _Sc.
Pr._
=He's looking for the blade o' corn in the stack= 25
=o' chaff.= _J. M. Barrie._
=He's most truly valiant / That can wisely suffer
the worst that man / Can breathe; and make
his wrongs his outsides: / To wear them like
his raiment, carelessly, / And ne'er prefer his
injuries to his heart, / To bring it into danger.=
_Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=He's only great who can himself command.=
_Lansdowne._
=He's well worth= (deserving of) =sorrow that buys
it with his ain siller.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's wise that's wise in time.= _Sc. Pr._
=Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.= _Com._ 30
_of Errors_, ii. 1.
=Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each
other.= _Spectator._
=Health consists with temperance alone.= _Pope._
=Health is better than wealth.= _Pr._
=Health is the condition of wisdom, and the
sign is cheerfulness--an open and noble
temper.= _Emerson._
=Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness= 35
=gives us the energy which is the basis
of health.= _Amiel._
=Health lies in labour, and there is no royal
road to it but through toil.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Health, longevity, beauty are other names
for personal purity, and temperance is the
regimen for all.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Healthy action is always a balance of forces;
and all extremes are dangerous; the excess
of a good thing being often more dangerous
in its social consequences than the excess of
what is radically bad.= _Prof. Blackie, to Young
Men._
=Hear God, and God will hear you.= _Pr._
=Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell / That= 40
=summons thee to heaven or to hell.= _Macb._,
ii. 1.
=Hear much and speak little; for the tongue
is the instrument of the greatest good and
the greatest evil that is done in this world.=
_Raleigh._
=Hear one side, and you will be in the dark;
hear both, and all will be clear.= _Haliburton._
=Hear ye not the hum / Of mighty workings?=
_Keats._
=Hearsay is half lies.= _Pr._
=Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the= 45
=softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent
downpour of rain.= _Jean Paul._
=Hearts are stronger than swords.= _Wendell
Phillips._
=Hearts grow warmer the farther you go /
Up to the North with its hills and snow.=
_Walter C. Smith._
=Hearts may agree though heads differ.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Hearts philanthropic at times have the trick /
Of the old hearts of stone.= _Walter C. Smith._
=Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from= 50
=the grave of desire.= _W. R. Alger._
=Heat and darkness, and what these two may
breed.= _Carlyle._
=Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty
from the eternal.= _Dante._
=Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That
it doth singe yourself.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=Heaven and God are best discerned through
tears; scarcely, perhaps, are discerned at
all without them.= _James Martineau._
=Heaven and yourself / Had part in this fair= 55
=maid= (Juliet); =now heaven hath all.= _Rom.
and Jul._, iv. 5.
=Heaven bestows / At home all riches that wise
Nature needs.= _Cowley._
=Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, /
Not light them for themselves; for if our
virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all
alike / As if we had them not.= _Meas. for
Meas._, i. 1.
=Heaven finds means to kill your joys with
love.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 3.
=Heaven from all creatures hides the book of
fate, / All but the page prescribed--their
present state.= _Pope._
=Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, /
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.= _Congreve._
=Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more
eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly
affect it.= _Bp. Hall._
=Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge /= 5
=That no king can corrupt.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 1.
=Heaven is as near by sea as by land.= _Pr._
=Heaven is in thy faith; happiness in thy
heart.= _Arndt._
=Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is
dumb.= _Quarles._
=Heaven is not always angry when He strikes, /
But most chastises those whom most He
likes.= _Pomfret._
=Heaven lies about us in our infancy.= _Wordsworth._ 10
=Heaven never helps the man that will not act.=
_Sophocles._
=Heaven often regulates effects by their causes,
and pays the wicked what they have deserved.=
_Corneille._
=Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.= _A.
B. Alcott._
=Heaven, which really in one sense is merciful
to sinners, is in no sense merciful to fools,
but even lays pitfalls for them and inevitable
snares.= _Ruskin._
=Heaven's above all; and there be souls that= 15
=must be saved, and there be souls that must
not be saved.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Heavens! can you then thus waste, in shameful
wise, / Your few important days of trial
here? / Heirs of eternity! yborn to rise /
Through endless states of being, still more
near / To bliss approaching, and perfection
clear.= _Thomson._
=Heaven's eternal wisdom hath decreed that
man of man should ever stand in need.=
_Theocritus._
=Heaven's fire confounds when fann'd with
folly's breath.= _Quarles._
=Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as
princes' palaces; they that enter there must
go upon their knees.= _Daniel Webster._
=Heavens! if privileged from trial, / How cheap= 20
=a thing were virtue!= _Thomson._
=Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself
that hideous sight--a naked human
heart.= _Young._
=Heav'n finds an ear when sinners find a
tongue.= _Quarles._
=Heav'n is for thee too high; be lowly wise.=
_Milton._
=Heav'n is not always got by running.= _Quarles._
=Heav'n is not day'd. Repentance is not dated.= 25
_Quarles._
=Hebt mich das Glück, so bin ich froh, / Und
sing in dulci jubilo; / Senkt sich das Rad
und quetscht mich nieder, / So denk' ich:
nun, es hebt sich wieder=--When Fortune lifts
me up, then am I glad and sing in sweet exultation;
when she sinks down and lays me prostrate,
then I begin to think, Now it will rise
again. _Goethe._
=Hectora quis nosset, si felix Troja fuisset? /
Publica virtuti per mala facta via est=--Who
would have known of Hector if Troy had been
fortunate? A highway is open to virtue through
the midst of misfortunes. _Ovid._
=Hectors Liebe stirbt im Lethe nicht=--Hector's
love does not perish in the floods of Lethe.
_Schiller._
=Hedges between keep friendship green.= _Pr._
=Hedgerows and Hercules-pillars, however perfect,= 30
=are to be reprobated as soon as they
diminish the free world of a future man.=
_Jean Paul._
=Heilig sei dir der Tag; doch schätze das
Leben nicht höher / Als ein anderes Gut,
und alle Güter sind trüglich=--Sacred be this
day to thee, yet rate not life higher than another
good, for all our good things are illusory.
_Goethe._
=Hei mihi! difficile est imitari gaudia falsa! /
Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum=--Ah
me! it is hard to feign the joys one does not
feel, hard to feign mirth when one's heart is sad.
_Tib._
=Hei mihi! qualis erat! quantum mutatus ab
illo / Hectore, qui redit, exuvias indutus
Achilli=--Ah me, how sad he looked! how
changed from that Hector who returned in
triumph arrayed in the spoils of Achilles. _Virg._
=Heitern Sinn und reine Zwecke / Nun, man
kommt wohl eine Strecke=--Serene sense and
pure aims, that means a long stride, I should say.
_Goethe._
="Hélas! que j'en ai vu mourir de jeunes filles"=--"Alas, 35
how many young girls have I seen die
of that!" _Victor Hugo._
=Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes
of men are never satisfied.= _Bible._
=Hell is on both sides of the tomb, and a devil
may be respectable and wear good clothes.=
_C. H. Parkhurst._
=Hell is paved with good intentions.= _Johnson._
=Hell is paved with the skulls of priests.= _Modified
from St. Chrysostom._
=Hell lies near, / Around us, as does heaven,= 40
=and in the world, / Which is our Hades,
still the chequered souls, / Compact of good
and ill--not all accurst, / Nor altogether
blest--a few brief years / Travel the little
journey of their lives, / They know not to
what end.= _Lewis Morris._
=Helluo librorum=--A devourer of books.
=Help others and seek to avenge no injury.=
_Fors._
=Help which is long on the road is no help.=
_Pr._
=Help yourself and your friends will help you.=
_Pr._
=Helpless mortal! Thine arm can destroy= 45
=thousands at once, but cannot enclose even
two of thy fellow-creatures at once in the
embrace of love and sympathy.= _Jean Paul._
=Hence, babbling dreams; you threaten here
in vain; / Conscience, avaunt, Richard's
himself again.= _Colley Cibber._
=Her angel's face, / As the great eye of heaven,
shined bright, / And made a sunshine in the
shady place.= _Spenser._
=Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.= _Tennyson._
=Her feet, beneath her petticoat, / Like little
mice stole in and out, / As if they fear'd the
light; / But oh! she dances such a way, /
No sun upon an Easter-day / Is half so fine
a sight.= _Sir J. Suckling._
=Her own person, / It beggar'd all description.=
_Ant. and Cleop._, ii. 2.
=Her sun is gone down while it was yet day.=
_Bible._
=Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low--an
excellent thing in woman.= _King Lear_,
v. 3.
=Hercules himself must yield to odds; / And= 5
=many strokes, though with a little axe, /
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.=
3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
=Here eyes do regard you / In Eternity's stillness;
/ Here is all fulness, / Ye brave,
to reward you. / Work and despair not.=
_Goethe._
=Here have we no continuing city, but we seek
one to come.= _St. Paul._
=Here have we war for war, and blood for
blood, / Controlment for controlment.= _King
John_, i. 1.
=Here I and sorrows sit; / Here is my throne;
bid kings come bow to it.= _King John_,
iii. 1.
=Here I lay, and thus I bore my point.= 1 _Hen._ 10
_IV._, ii. 4-.
=Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him
I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent /
A day's march nearer home.= _J. Montgomery._
=Here lies Johnny Pigeon! / What was his
religion, / Wha e'er desires to ken / To
some ither warl' / Maun follow the carl, /
For here Johnny Pigeon had nane.= _Burns._
=Here lies one whose name was writ in water.=
_Keat's epitaph._
=Here lies our sovereign lord the king, / Whose
word no man relies on; / He never says a
foolish thing, / Nor ever does a wise one.=
_Rochester on Charles II.'s chamber-door._
=Here lieth one, believe it if you can, / Who,= 15
=though an attorney, was an honest man!=
_Epitaph._
=Here, on earth we are as soldiers fighting in
a foreign land, that understand not the plan
of the campaign, and have no need to understand
it, seeing well what is at our hand to
be done.= _Carlyle._
=Here or nowhere is America.= _Goethe._
=Here our souls / Though amply blest, / Can
never find, although they seek, / A perfect
rest.= _Procter._
=Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Here's a sigh for those who love me, / And a= 20
=smile for those who hate, / And whatever
sky's above me, / Here's a heart for every
fate.= _Byron._
=Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, / Who
would be free, themselves must strike the
blow?= _Byron._
=Hereditary honours are a noble and a splendid
treasure to descendants.= _Plato._
=Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, /
From Macedonia's madman to the Swede.=
_Pope._
=Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse
of an individual's character.= _Emerson._
=Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul= 25
=over fear; fear of poverty, of suffering, of
calumny, of sickness, of isolation and death....
It is the dazzling and glorious concentration
of courage.= _Amiel._
=Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting
itself in action.= _Hare._
=Heroism, the Divine relation which, in all
times, unites a great man to other men.=
_Carlyle._
=Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will for
ever exist, universally among mankind.= _Carlyle._
=Herradura que chacotea clavo le falta=--A
clattering hoof means a nail gone. _Sp. Pr._
=Herrenlos ist auch der Freiste nicht=--Even 30
the most emancipated is not without a master.
_Schiller._
=Herrschaft gewinn ich, Eigentum; / Die That
ist alles, nichts der Ruhm=--Lordship, aye
ownership, is my conquest; the deed is everything,
the fame of it nothing. _Goethe._
=Heu melior quanto sors tua sorte meâ!=--Alas!
how much better is your fate than mine!
_Ovid._
=Heu nihil invitis fas quenquam fidere divis=--Alas!
it is not permitted to any one to feel confident
when the gods are adverse. _Virg._
=Heu pietas! Heu prisca fides=--Alas! for piety!
Alas! for ancient faith! _Virg._
=Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere= 35
=vultu!=--Alas! how difficult it is not to betray
guilt by our looks! _Ovid._
=Heu! quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est!=--Alas!
how difficult is the custody of glory.
_Pub. Syr._
=Heu! quam miserum est ab eo lædi, de quo
non ausis queri=--Alas! how galling is it to be
injured by one against whom you dare make no
complaint. _Pub. Syr._
=Heu quantum fati parva tabella vehit!=--Ah!
with what a weight of destiny is this one slight
plank freighted! _Ovid._
=Heu! totum triduum!=--What! three whole days
of waiting! _Ter._
=Heureka=--I have found it out. _Gr._ 40
=Heureux commencement est la moitié de
l'œuvre=--A work well begun is half done. _Fr.
Pr._
=Heute muss dem Morgen nichts borgen=--To-day
must borrow nothing of to-morrow. _Ger.
Pr._
=Heute roth, Morgen todt=--- To-day red, to-morrow
dead. _Ger. Pr._
=Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina
tanta / Pulveris exigui jactu compressa
quiescent=--These passions of soul, these conflicts
so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by
the casting of a little dust. _Virg._
=Hiatus maxime deflendus=--A deficiency or blank 45
very much to be deplored.
=Hibernicis ipsis hibernior=--More Irish than the
Irish themselves.
=Hic dies, vere mihi festus, atras / Eximet curas=--This
day, for me a true holiday, shall banish
gloomy cares. _Hor._
=Hic est aut nusquam quod quærimus=--Here or
else nowhere is what we are aiming at. _Hor._
=Hic est mucro defensionis tuæ=--This is the point
of your defence. _Cic._
=Hic et nunc=--Here and now. 50
=Hic et ubique=--Here and everywhere.
=Hic finis fandi=--Here let the conversation end.
=Hic funis nihil attraxit=--This bait has taken no
fish; this scheme has not answered. _Pr._
=Hic gelidi fontes, hic mollia prata, Lycori, /
Hic nemus, hic toto tecum consumerer ævo=--Here
are cool springs, Lycoris, here velvet
meads, here a grove; here with thee could I
pass my whole life. _Virg._
=Hic hæret aqua!=--This is the difficulty (_lit._ here 5
the water (in the water-clock) stops).
=Hic jacet=--Here lies.
=Hic locus est partes ubi se via findit in ambas=--This
is the spot where the way divides in two
branches. _Virg._
=Hic murus aheneus esto, / Nil conscire sibi,
nulla pallescere culpa=--Be this our wall of
brass, to be conscious of no guilt, to turn pale
at no charge brought against us. _Hor._
=Hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto=--This
fellow is black; have a care of him, Roman.
_Hor._
=Hic nigræ succus loliginis, hæc est / Ærugo= 10
=mera=--This is the very venom of dark detraction;
this is pure malignity. _Hor._
=Hic patet ingeniis campus, certusque merenti /
Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis=--Here
is a field open for talent, and here merit
will have certain favour, and industry be graced
with its due reward. _Claud._
=Hic Rhodos, hic salta=--Here is Rhodes; here
leap.
=Hic rogo, non furor est ne moriare mori?=--I
ask, is it not madness to die that you may not
die? _Mart._
=Hic situs est Phaëton currus auriga paterni; /
Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit
ausis=--Here lies buried Phaëton, the driver of
his father's car, which if he did not manage,
still he perished in a great attempt. _Ovid._
=Hic transitus efficit magnum vitæ compendium=--This 15
change effects a great saving of time (_lit._
life).
=Hic ubi nunc urbs est, tum locus urbis erat=--Here,
where the city now stands, was at that
time nothing but its site. _Ovid._
=Hic ver assiduum, atque alienis mensibus
æstas=--Here (in Italy) is ceaseless spring, and
summer in months in which summer is alien.
_Virg._
=Hic victor cæstus artemque repono=--Here
victorious I lay aside my cestus and my net.
_Virg._
=Hic vigilans somniat=--He sleeps awake. _Plaut._
=Hic vivimus ambitiosa / Paupertate omnes=--We 20
all live here in a state of ostentatious poverty.
_Juv._
=Hid jewels are but lost.= _Quarles._
=Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich's sein=--Here
am I a man, here may I be one. _Goethe._
=Hier ist die Zeit durch Thaten zu beweisen, /
Dass Manneswürde nicht der Götterhöhe
weicht=--Now is the time to show by deeds
that the dignity of a man does not yield to the
sublimity of the gods. _Goethe._
=Hier ist keine Heimat--Jeder treibt / Sich an
dem andern rasch und fremd vorüber, / Und
fragt nicht nach seinem Schmerz=--Here is no
home for a man: every one drives past another
hastily and unneighbourly, and inquires not after
his pain. _Schiller._
=Hier sitz' ich auf Rasen mit Veilchen bekränzt=--Here 25
sit I upon the sward wreathed with violets.
_K. Schmidt._
=Hier stehe ich! Ich kann nicht anders. Gott
helfe mir! Amen=--Here stand I. I cannot
act otherwise. So help me God! _Luther at
the Diet of Worms._
=Hier steht einer, der wird mich rächen=--Here
stands one who will avenge me. _Frederick
William of Prussia, pointing to his son._
=High air-castles are cunningly built of words,
the words well-bedded in good logic mortar;
wherein, however, no knowledge will come
to lodge.= _Carlyle._
=High birth is an accident, not a virtue.= _Metastasio._
=High erected thoughts seated in the heart of= 30
=courtesy.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=High houses are usually empty in the upper
storey.= _Ger. Pr._
=High is the head of the stag on the mountain
crag.= _Gael. Pr._
=High station has to be resigned in order to be
appreciated.= _Pascal._
=Hilarisque tamen cum pondere virtus=--Virtue
may be gay, yet with dignity. _Statius._
=Hilft Gott uns nicht, kein Kaiser kann uns= 35
=helfen=--God helps us not; no emperor can.
_Schiller._
=Hills peep o'er hills; and alps on alps arise.=
_Pope._
=Hilo y aguja, media vestidura=--Needle and
thread are half clothing. _Sp. Pr._
=Him only pleasure leads and peace attends, /
Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends, /
Whose means are fair and spotless as his
ends.= _Wordsworth._
=Him who makes chaff of himself the cows will
eat.= _Arab. Pr._
=Hin ist die Zeit, da Bertha spann=--Gone is the 40
time when Queen Bertha span. _Ger. Pr._
=Hin ist hin! Verloren ist verloren=--Gone is
gone! Lost is lost. _G. A. Bürger._
=Hinc illæ lachrymæ=--Hence these tears. _Virg._
=Hinc lucem et pocula sacra=--Hence light to us
and sacred draughts. _M. of Cambridge University._
=Hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum=--To
them (the gods) ascribe every undertaking, to
them the issue. _Hor._
=Hinc subitæ mortes atque intestata senectus=--Hence 45
(from sensual indulgence) sudden deaths
and intestate old age. _Juv._
=Hinc totam infelix vulgatur fama per urbem=--Hence
the unhappy news is spread abroad
through the whole city. _Virg._
=Hinc usura vorax, avidumque in tempore
fænus, / Et concussa fides, et multis utile
bellum=--Hence (from the ambition of Cæsar)
arise devouring usury, grasping interest, shaken
credit, and war of advantage to many. _Lucan._
=Hinc venti dociles resono se carcere solvunt, /
Et cantum accepta pro libertate rependunt=--Hence
the obedient winds are loosed from their
sounding prison, and repay the liberty they have
received with a tune. _Of an organ._
=His bark is waur nor= (worse than) =his bite.=
_Sc. Pr._
=His Christianity was muscular.= _Disraeli._ 50
=His failings lean'd to virtue's side.= _Goldsmith._
=His kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch
of holy bread.= _As You Like It_, iii. 4.
=His imagination resembled the wings of an
ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not
to soar.= _Macaulay._
=His lachrymis vitam damus, et miserescimus
ultro=--To these tears we grant him life, and
pity him besides. _Virg._
=His legibus solutis respublica stare non potest=--With
these laws repealed, the republic cannot
last. _Cic._
=His life was gentle, and the elements / So= 5
=mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, /
And say to all the world: This was a man!=
_Jul. Cæs._, v. 5.
=His nature is too noble for the world; / He
would not flatter Neptune for his trident, /
or Jove for his power to thunder.= _Coriolanus_,
iii. 2.
=His nunc præmium est, qui recta prava faciunt=--Nowadays
those are rewarded who make right
appear wrong. _Ter._
=His opinion who does not see spiritual agency
in history is not worth any man's reading.=
_Wm. Blake._
=His own character is the arbiter of every one's
fortune.= _Pub. Syr._
=His rash, fierce blaze of riot cannot last, / For= 10
=violent fires soon outburn themselves.= _Rich.
II._, ii. 1.
=His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani
munere=--These offerings at least I would bestow
upon him, and discharge a duty though it
no longer avails. _Virg._
=His speech was like a tangled chain; / Nothing
impaired, but all disordered.= _Mid. Night's
Dream_, v. 1.
=His thoughts look through his words.= _Ben
Jonson._
=His time is for ever, everywhere his place.=
_Cowley._
=His tongue could make the worse appear the= 15
=better reason.= _Milton._
=His tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make
the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex
and dash / Maturest counsels.= _Milton._
=His very foot has music in 't, / As he comes
up the stair.= _W. J. Mickle._
=His wit invites you by his looks to come, /
But when you knock, it never is at home.=
_Cowper._
=His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles.=
_Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 7.
=Historia quo quomodo scripta delectat=--History, 20
however written, is always a pleasure to
us. _Pliny._
=Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise,
and is gifted with an eye and a soul.= _Carlyle._
=Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the
mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy,
deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric,
able to contend.= _Bacon._
=History and experience prove that the most
passionate characters are the most fanatically
rigid in their feelings of duty, when
their passion has been trained to act in that
direction.= _J. S. Mill._
=History, as it lies at the root of all science, is
also the first distinct product of man's
spiritual nature, his earliest expression of
what may be called thought.= _Carlyle._
=History ensures for youth the understanding= 25
=of the ancients.= _Diodorus._
=History has only to do with what is true, and
what is only probable should be relegated
to the imaginary domain of romance and
poetical fiction.= (?)
=History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon
the memories of man.= _Shelley._
=History is always written= _ex post facto_.
=History is an impertinence and an injury,
if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue
or parable of my being and becoming.=
_Emerson._
=History is an imprisoned epic, nay, an imprisoned= 30
=psalm and prophecy.= _Carlyle._
=History is but a fable agreed on.= _Napoleon._
=History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.=
_Garfield._
=History is indeed little more than the register
of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.=
_Gibbon._
=History is like sacred writing, for truth is
essential to it.= _Cervantes._
=History is made up of the bad actions of= 35
=extraordinary men. All the most noted
destroyers and deceivers of our species, all
the founders of arbitrary governments and
false religions, have been extraordinary men,
and nine-tenths of the calamities which have
befallen the human race had no other origin
than the union of high intelligence with low
desires.= _Macaulay._
=History is only a confused heap of facts.=
_Chesterfield._
=History is philosophy teaching by examples.=
_Quoted by Bolingbroke._
=History is properly nothing but a satire on
mankind.= _C. J. Weber._
=History is the true poetry.= _Carlyle._
=History shows that the majority of the men= 40
=who have done anything great have passed
their youth in seclusion.= _Heine._
=History teems with instances of truth put
down by persecution; if not suppressed for
ever, it may be thrown back for centuries.=
_J. S. Mill._
=Hitch your waggon to a star.= _Emerson._
=Hitherto all miracles have been wrought by
thought, and henceforth innumerable will be
wrought; whereof we, even in these days,
witness some.= _Carlyle._
=Hitherto doth love on fortune tend; / For who
not needs, shall never lack a friend; / And
who in want a hollow friend doth try, /
Directly seasons him his enemy.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and= 45
=here shall thy proud waves be stayed.= _Bible._
=Hizonos Dios, y maravillámonos nos=--God made
us, and we admire ourselves. _Sp. Pr._
=Hobbes clearly proves that every creature /
Lives in a state of war by nature.= _Swift._
="Hoc age" is the great rule, whether you are
serious or merry; whether ... learning
science or duty from a folio, or floating on
the Thames. Intentions must be gathered
from acts.= _Johnson._
=Hoc age=--Mind what you are about (_lit._ do this).
=Hoc erat in more majorum=--This was the custom 50
of our forefathers.
=Hoc erat in votis; modus agri non ita magnus; /
Hortus ubi, et tecto vicinus juris aquæ fons, /
Et paulum silvæ super his foret=--This was
ever my chief prayer: a piece of ground not too
large, with a garden, and a spring of never-failing
water near my house, and a little woodland besides.
_Hor._
=Hoc est quod palles? cur quis non prandeat,
hoc est?=--Is it for this you look so
pale? is this a reason why one should not dine?
_Pers._
=Hoc est / Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui=--To
be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
_Martial._
=Hoc fonte derivata clades, / In patriam, populumque
fluxit=--From this source the disaster
flowed that has overwhelmed the nation and the
people. _Hor._
=Hoc genus omne=--All persons of that kind. 5
=Hoc Herculi Iovis satu edito' potuit fortasse
contingere, nobis non item=--This might perchance
happen to Hercules, of the seed royal of
Jove, but not to us. _Cic._
=Hoc loco=--In this place.
=Hoc maxime officii est, ut quisquis maxime
opus indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari=--It
is our prime duty to aid him first who most
stands in need of our assistance. _Cic._
=Hoc opus, hic labor est=--This is a work, this is
a toil. _Virg._
=Hoc patrium est, potius consuefacere filium /= 10
=Sua sponte recte facere, quam alieno metu=--It
is a father's duty to accustom his son to
act rightly of his own free-will rather than from
fear of the consequences. _Ter._
=Hoc pretium ob stultitiam fero=--This reward
I gain for my folly. _Ter._
=Hoc scito, nimio celerius / Venire quod molestum
est, quam id quod cupide petas=--Be sure
of this, that that which is disagreeable comes
more speedily than that which you eagerly desire.
_Plaut._
=Hoc signo vinces=--By this sign (the cross) you
will conquer. _M._
=Hoc virtutis opus=--This is virtue's work. _M._
=Hoc volo, hoc jubeo; sit pro ratione voluntas=--This 15
I wish, this I require: be my will instead
of reason. _Juv._
=Hodie mihi, cras tibi=--My turn to-day, yours
to-morrow.
=Hodie nihil, cras credo=--To-morrow I will trust,
not to-day. _Varro._
=Hodie vivendum amissa præteritorum cura=--Let
us live to-day, forgetting the cares that are
past. _An Epicurean maxim._
=Hoi polloi=--The multitude. _Gr._
=Hoist up the sail while gale doth last--/ Tide= 20
=and wind wait no man's pleasure! / Seek not
time when time is past--/ Sober speed is
wisdom's leisure!= _Southwell._
=Hold all the skirts of thy mantle extended when
heaven is raining gold.= _Eastern Pr._
=Hold the living dear and honour the dead.=
_Goethe._
=Hold their farthing candle to the sun.= _Young,
of critics._
=Hold thou the good; define it well.= _Tennyson._
=Hold up thy head; the taper lifted high /= 25
=Will brook the wind when lower tapers
die.= _Quarles._
=Holy fields, / Over whose acres walked those
blessed feet / Which fourteen hundred years
ago were nail'd, / For our advantage, on the
bitter cross.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.
=Holy men at their death have good inspirations.=
_Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=Hombre de barba=--A man of intelligence. _Sp._
=Hombre pobre todo es trazas=--A poor man is
all schemes. _Sp. Pr._
=Home, in one form or another, is the great= 30
=object of life.= _J. G. Holland._
=Home is heaven for beginners.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Home is home, be it never so homely.= _Pr._
=Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not
only from all injury, but from all terror,
doubt, and division.= _Ruskin._
=Home should be an oratorio of the memory,
singing to all our after life melodies and
harmonies of old-remembered joy.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Home, the nursery of the infinite.= _Channing._ 35
=Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.=
_Two Gent. of Ver._, i. 1.
=Homer's Epos has not ceased to be true; yet
is no longer our Epos, but shines in the distance,
if clearer and clearer, yet also smaller
and smaller, like a receding star. It needs
a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted
and artificially brought near us,
before we can so much as know that 'twas
a sun.... For all things, even celestial
luminaries, much more atmospheric meteors,
have their rise, their culmination, their decline.=
_Carlyle._
=Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius /
Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putat=--Nothing
so unjust as your ignorant man, who
thinks nothing right but what he himself has
done. _Ter._
=Hominem non odi sed ejus vitia=--I do not hate
the man, but his vices. _Mart._
=Hominem pagina nostra sapit=--My pages concern 40
man. _Mart._
=Hominem quæro=--I am in quest of a man.
_Phædr. after Diogenes._
=Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt
quam salutem hominibus dando=--In nothing
do men so nearly approach the gods as in giving
health to men. _Cic._
=Homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt:
longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax
per exempla=--Men trust their eyes rather than
their ears: the road by precept is long and tedious,
by example short and effectual. _Sen._
=Homines nihil agendo discunt male agere=--By
doing nothing men learn to do ill. _Cato._
=Homines plus in alieno negotio videre, quam= 45
=in suo=--Men see better into other people's business
than their own. _Sen._
=Homines proniores sunt ad voluptatem, quam
ad virtutem=--Men are more prone to pleasure
than to virtue. _Cic._
=Homines, quo plura habent, eo cupiunt ampliora=--The
more men have, the more they want.
_Justin._
=Homini necesse est mori=--Man must die. _Cic._
=Homini ne fidas nisi cum quo modium satis
absumpseres=--Trust no man till you have eaten
a peck of salt with him, _i.e._, known him so long
as you might have done so. _Pr._
=Hominibus plenum, amicis vacuum=--Full of
men, vacant of friends. _Sen._
=Hominis est errare, insipientis perseverare=--It
is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere
in error.
=Hominum sententia fallax=--The opinions of men
are fallible. _Ovid._
=Homme assailli à demi vaincu=--A man assailed
is half overpowered. _Fr._
=Homme chiche jamais riche=--A niggardly man 5
is always poor. _Fr. Pr._
=Homme d'affaires=--A business man. _Fr._
=Homme d'esprit=--A witty man. _Fr._
=Homme d'état=--A statesman. _Fr._
=Homme d'honneur=--A man of honour. _Fr._
=Homme instruit=--A learned or literary man. 10
_Fr._
=Homo ad res perspicacior Lynceo vel Argo, et
oculeus totus=--A man more clear-sighted for
business than Lynceus or Argus, and eyes all
over. _Apul._
=Homo antiqua virtute ac fide=--A man of the
old-fashioned virtue and loyalty. _Ter._
=Homo constat ex duabus partibus, corpore et
anima, quorum una est corporea, altera ab
omni materiæ concretione sejuncta=--Man is
composed of two parts, body and soul, of which
the one is corporeal, the other separated from all
combination with matter. _Cic._
=Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet=--A
learned man has always riches in himself.
_Phædr._
=Homo extra est corpus suum cum irascitur=--A 15
man when angry is beside himself. _Pub. Syr._
=Homo fervidus et diligens ad omnia paratur=--The
man who is earnest and diligent is prepared
for all things. _Thomas à Kempis._
=Homo homini aut deus aut lupus=--Man is to
man either a god or a wolf. _Erasmus._
=Homo is a common name to all men.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, ii. 1.
=Homo multarum literarum=--A man of many
letters, _i.e._, of extensive learning.
=Homo multi consilii et optimi=--A man always 20
ready to give his advice, and that the most
judicious.
=Homo nullius coloris=--A man of no party.
=Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, /
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit; /
Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit=--He
who kindly shows the way to one who has
gone astray, acts as though he had lighted
another's lamp from his own, which both gives
light to the other and continues to shine for
himself. _Cic._
=Homo solus aut deus aut demon=--Man alone is
either a god or a devil.
=Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto=--I
am a man, and I reckon nothing human
alien to me. _Ter._
=Homo toties moritur, quoties amittit suos=--A 25
man dies as often as he loses his relatives.
_Pub. Syr._
=Homo trium literarum=--A man of three letters,
_i.e._, FUR, "a thief." _Plaut._
=Homo unius libri=--A man of one book. _Thomas
Aquinas' definition of a learned man._
=Homunculi quanti sunt, cum recogito=--What
poor creatures we men are, when I think of it.
_Plaut._
=Honest labour bears a lovely face.= _T. Dekker._
=Honest men marry soon, wise men never.= _Sc._ 30
_Pr._
=Honesta mors turpi vita potior=--An honourable
death is better than an ignominious life.
_Tac._
=Honesta paupertas prior quam opes malæ=--Poverty
with honour is better than ill-gotten
wealth. _Pr._
=Honesta quædam scelera successus facit=--Success
makes some species of crimes honourable.
_Sen._
=Honesta quam splendida=--Honourable rather
than showy. _M._
=Honestum non est semper quod licet=--What is 35
lawful is not always honourable. _L._
=Honestum quod vere dicimus, etiamsi a nullo
laudatur, laudabile est sua natura=--That
which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy
in its own nature, even though it should be
praised by no one. _Cic._
=Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that
is the last of it.= _Amer. Pr._
=Honesty is the best policy.= _Pr._
=Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich
man's pudding.= _Pr._
=Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be= 40
=an ill pennyworth.= _Sc. Pr._
=Honi soit qui mal y pense=--Evil be to him that
evil thinks. _Royal M. Fr._
=Honnêtes gens=--Upright people. _Fr._
=Honneur et patrie=--Honour and country. _M._
=Honor Deo=--Honour be to God. _M._
=Honor est præmium virtutis=--Honour is the 45
reward of virtue. _Cic._
=Honor fidelitatis præmium=--Honour is the reward
of fidelity. _M._
=Honor sequitur fugientem=--Honour follows him
who flies from her. _M._
=Honores mutant mores=--Honours change
manners.
=Honos alit artes, omnesque incenduntur ad
studia gloria=--Honours encourage the arts, for
all are incited towards studies by fame. _Cic._
=Honour a physician with the honour due unto= 50
=him for the uses which ye may have of him,
for the Lord hath created him.= _Ecclus._
=Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear
God. Honour the king.= _St. Peter._
=Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows.= _Pr._
=Honour hath no skill in surgery.... Honour
is a mere scutcheon.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=Honour is nobler than gold.= _Gael. Pr._
=Honour is not a virtue in itself; it is the mail= 55
=behind which the virtues fight more securely.=
_G. H. Calvert._
=Honour is unstable, and seldom the same;
for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as
her food.= _Colton._
=Honour is venerable to us because it is no
ephemeris.= _Emerson._
=Honour to whom honour is due.= _St. Paul._
=Honour travels in a strait so narrow, / Where
one but goes abreast.= _Troil. and Cress._,
iii. 3.
=Honour won't patch.= _Gael. Pr._ 60
=Honourable= (_Ehrlich_) =is a word of high rank,
and implies much more than most people
attach to it.= _Arndt._
=Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give
an ideal and local value to a bit of base
metal; but gold and silver will pass all the
world over, without any other recommendation
than their own weight.= _Sterne._
=Honours to one in my situation are something
like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.=
_Goldsmith, of himself._
=Honour's the moral conscience of the great.=
_D'Avenant._
=Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait
pris=--Sheepish as a fox that has been taken in
by a fowl. _La Font._
=Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.= _Bible._ 5
=Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.= _Merry
Wives_, ii. 1.
=Hope is a good anchor, but it needs something
to grip.= _Pr._
=Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, /
And manage it against despairing thoughts.=
_Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe
friend. He'll do on a pinch for your
travelling companion, but he's not the man
for your banker.= _Amer. Pr._
=Hope is a waking man's dream.= _Pr._ 10
=Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps
the chief happiness which this world
affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses
must be expiated by pain; and expectations
improperly indulged must end in
disappointment.= _Johnson._
=Hope is not the man for your banker, though
he may do for your travelling companion.=
_Haliburton._
=Hope is the best part of our riches.= _Bovee._
=Hope is the only good which is common to all
men.= _Thales._
=Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollection= 15
=is its golden tinge; but the latter
is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky
shades of twilight, and the bright blue day
which the former promises breaks indeed,
but in another world and with another sun.=
_Jean Paul._
=Hope never comes that comes to all.= _Milton._
=Hope never spread her golden wings but in
unfathomable seas.= _Emerson._
=Hope not wholly to reason away your troubles;
but do not feed them with attention, and they
will die imperceptibly away.= _Johnson._
=Hope, of all ills that men endure, / The only
cheap and universal cure.= _Cowley._
=Hope springs eternal in the human breast; /= 20
=Man never is, but always to be, blest.= _Pope._
=Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.=
_Burns._
=Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.=
_Quoted by Swinburne._
=Hope to joy is little less in joy / Than hope
enjoyed.= _Rich. II._, ii. 3.
=Hoping and waiting is not my way of doing
things.= _Goethe._
=Hora e sempre=--Now and always. _M._ 25
=Horæ cedunt, et dies, et menses, et anni,
nec præteritum tempus unquam revertitur=--Hours
and days, months and years, pass away,
and time once past never returns. _Cic._
=Horæ / Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria
læta=--In a moment of time comes sudden death
or joyful victory. _Hor._
=Horas non numero nisi serenas=--I mark no
hours but the shining ones. _Of a dial._
=Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam; /
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes=--As ants
never bend their way to empty barns, so no
friend will visit departed wealth. _Ovid._
=Horresco referens=--I shudder as I relate. _Virg._ 30
=Horribile dictu=--Horrible to relate.
=Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent=--Everywhere
horror seizes the soul, and
the very silence is dreadful. _Virg._
=Horror vacui=--Abhorrence of a vacuum.
=Hors de combat=--Out of condition to fight.
_Fr._
=Hors de propos=--Not to the purpose. _Fr._ 35
=Hortus siccus=--A dry garden; a collection of
dried plants.
=Hos successus alit; possunt quia posse videntur=--These
are encouraged by success; they
prevail because they think they can. _Virg._
=Hospice d'accouchement=--A maternity hospital.
_Fr._
=Hospice d'allaitement=--A foundling hospital.
_Fr._
=Hospitality must be for service, not for show,= 40
=or it pulls down the host.= _Emerson._
=Hostis est uxor invita quæ ad virum nuptum
datur=--The wife who is given in marriage to
a man against her will becomes his enemy.
_Plaut._
=Hostis honori invidia=--Envy is honour's foe. _M._
=Hôtel de ville=--A town-hall. _Fr._
=Hôtel Dieu=--The house of God; the name of an
hospital. _Fr._
=Household words.= _Hen. V._, iv. 3. 45
=Housekeeping without a wife is a lantern without
a light.= _Pr._
=Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.=
_Bacon._
=How are riches the means of happiness? In
acquiring they create trouble, in their loss
they occasion sorrow, and they are the cause
of endless divisions amongst kindred!= _Hitopadesa._
=How beautiful is death, seeing that we die in
a world of life and of creation without end!=
_Jean Paul._
=How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams, /= 50
=With its allusions, aspirations, dreams! /
Book of beginnings, story without end, /
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend.=
_Longfellow._
=How beautiful to die of a broken heart on
paper! Quite another thing in practice!
Every window of your feeling, even of your
intellect, as it were begrimed,
so that no pure ray can enter;
a whole drug-shop in your inwards; the foredone
soul drowning slowly in a quagmire of
disgust.= _Carlyle._
=How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness
through another man's eyes!= _As You Like
It_, v. 2.
=How blessed might poor mortals be in the
straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom
and fidelity to Heaven and one another were
adequately great.= _Carlyle, apropos to his life
at Craigenputtock._
=How blessings brighten as they take their
flight!= _Young._
=How blest the humble cotter's fate! / He woos
his simple dearie; / The silly bogles, wealth,
and state, / Can never make them eerie.=
_Burns._
=How can a man be concealed? How can a
man be concealed?= _Confucius._
=How can he be godly who is not cleanly?=
_Pr._
=How can man love but what he yearns to
help?= _Browning._
=How can we expect a harvest of thought= 5
=who have not had a seed-time of character?=
_Thoreau._
=How can we learn to know ourselves? Never
by reflection, but only through action. Essay
to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once
what is in thee.= _Goethe._
=How charming is divine philosophy!= _Milton._
=How creatures of the human kind shut their
eyes to the plainest facts, and by the mere
inertia of oblivion and stupidity live at ease
in the midst of wonders and terrors.= _Carlyle._
=How difficult it is to get men to believe that
any other man can or does act from disinterestedness.=
_B. R. Haydon._
=How dire is love when one is so tortured; and= 10
=yet lovers cannot exist without torturing
themselves.= _Goethe._
=How doth the little busy bee / Improve each
shining hour, / And gather honey all the
day / From every opening flower.= _Watts._
=How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To
rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, / As
though to breathe were life.= _Tennyson._
=How enormous appear the crimes we have
not committed!= _Mme. Necker._
=How far that little candle throws his beams! /
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.=
_Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=How fast has brother followed / From sunshine= 15
=to the sunless land.= _Wordsworth._
=How few think justly of the thinking few; /
How many never think, who think they do!=
_Jane Taylor._
=How foolish and absurd, nay, how hurtful and
destructive a vice is ambition, which, by
undue pursuit of honour, robs us of true
honour!= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How forcible are right words!= _Bible._
=How fortunate beyond all others is the man
who, in order to adjust himself to fate, is
not required to cast away his whole preceding
life!= _Goethe._
=How full of briers is this working-day world!= 20
_As You Like It_, i. 3.
=How glorious a character appears when it is
penetrated with mind and soul.= _Goethe._
=How good is man's life, the mere living! how
fit to employ / All the heart, and the soul,
and the senses for ever in joy!= _Browning._
=How happy could I be with either, / Were
t'other dear charmer away!= _Gay._
=How happy is he born or taught / That serveth
not another's will; / Whose armour is
his honest thought, / And simple truth his
utmost skill.= _Sir Henry Wotton._
=How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! /= 25
=The world forgetting, by the world forgot.=
_Pope._
=How happy is the prince who has counsellors
near him who can guard him against the
effects of his own angry passions; their
names shall be read in golden letters when
the history of his reign is perused.= _Scott._
=How happy should we be ... / If we from self
could rest, / And feel at heart that One
above, / In perfect wisdom, perfect love, /
Is working for the best!= _Anstice._
=How hard it is= (for the Byron, for the Burns),
=whose ear is quick for celestial messages, to
"take no counsel with flesh and blood," and
instead of living and writing for the day that
passes over them, live and write for the
eternity that rests and abides over them!=
_Carlyle._
=How hardly man the lesson learns, / To smile,
and bless the hand that spurns: / To see the
blow, to feel the pain, / And render only love
again!= _Anon._
=How hardly shall they who have riches enter= 30
=into the kingdom of God!= _Jesus._
=How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester.=
2 _Hen. IV._, v. 5.
=How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates
itself, even among the weedy entanglements
of evil!= _Carlyle._
=How is each of us so lonely in the wide bosom
of the All?= _Jean Paul._
=How is it possible to expect that mankind
will take advice, when they will not so much
as take warning.= _Swift._
=How little do the wantonly or idly officious= 35
=think what mischief they do by their malicious
insinuations, indirect impertinence, or
thoughtless babblings!= _Burns._
=How little is the promise of the child fulfilled
in the man.= _Ovid._
=How long halt ye between two opinions?=
_Bible._
=How long I have lived, how much lived in
vain! / How little of life's scanty span may
remain! / What aspects old Time in his
progress has worn! / What ties cruel fate in
my bosom has torn! / How foolish, or worse,
till our summit is gain'd! / And downward,
how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd!=
_Burns._
=How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty
scene be acted over / In states unborn and
accents yet unknown!= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=How many causes that can plead for themselves= 40
=in the courts of Westminster, and
yet in the general court of the universe
and free soul of man, have no word to utter!=
_Carlyle._
=How many cowards, whose hearts are all as
false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their
chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning
Mars! / Who, inward searched, have livers
white as milk.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=How many honest words have suffered corruption
since Chaucer's days!= _Middleton._
=How many illustrious and noble heroes have
lived too long by a day!= _Rousseau._
=How many men live on the reputation of
the reputation they might have made!=
_Holmes._
=How many people make themselves abstract= 45
=to appear profound! The greatest part of
abstract terms are shadows that hide a
vacuum.= _Joubert._
=How many things by season season'd are /
To their right praise and true perfection!=
_Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.
=How many things, just and unjust, have no
higher sanction than custom!= _Ter._
=How much a dunce that has been sent to
roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept
at home!= _Cowper._
=How much better is it to get wisdom than
gold! and to get understanding rather to be
chosen than silver!= _Bible._
=How much better it is to weep at joy than to= 5
=joy at weeping!= _Much Ado_, i. 4.
=How much easier it is to be generous than
just!= _Junius._
=How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key
wherewith we decipher the whole man.=
_Carlyle._
=How much the wife is dearer than the bride!=
_Lyttelton._
=How narrow our souls become when absorbed
in any present good or ill! It is only the
thought of the future that makes them
great.= _Jean Paul._
=How noble is heroic insight without words in= 10
=comparison to the adroitest flow of words
without heroic insight!= _Carlyle._
=How noiseless is thought! No rolling of
drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable
tumult of baggage-waggons, attends
its movements; in what obscure and sequestered
places may the head be meditating
which is one day to be crowned with more
than imperial authority; for kings and emperors
will be among its ministering servants;
it will rule not over, but in all heads,
and bend the world to its will.= _Carlyle._
=How oft do they their silver bowers leave /
To come to succour us that succour want!=
_Spenser._
=How one is vexed with little things in this
life! The great evils one triumphs over
bravely, but the little eat away one's heart.=
_Mrs. Carlyle._
=How paint to the sensual eye what passes in
the holy-of-holies of man's soul; in what
words, known to these profane times, speak
even afar-off of the unspeakable?= _Carlyle._
=How poor are they that have not patience! /= 15
=What wound did ever heal but by degrees?=
_Othello_, ii. 3.
=How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, /
How complicate, how wonderful is man!=
_Young._
=How prone to doubt, how cautious are the
wise!= _Pope, after Homer._
=How quick to know, but how slow to put in
practice, is the human creature!= _Goethe._
=How quickly Nature falls into revolt / When
gold becomes her object!= 2 _Hen. IV._,
iv. 4.
=How rarely reason guides the stubborn= 20
=choice, / Rules the bold hand or prompts
the suppliant voice.= _Johnson._
=How ready some people are to admire in a
great man the exception rather than the
rule of his conduct! Such perverse worship
is like the idolatry of barbarous nations,
who can see the noonday splendour of the
sun without emotion, but who, when he is
in eclipse, come forward with hymns and
cymbals to adore him.= _Canning._
=How rich a man is, all desire to know, / But
none enquire if good he be or no.= _Herrick._
=How sad a path it is to climb and descend
another's stairs!= _Dante._
=How science dwindles, and how volumes
swell, / How commentators each dark passage
shun, / And hold their farthing candle to
the sun!= _Young._
=How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or= 25
=draw off from his veins the black drop which
he drew from his father's or his mother's
life?= _Emerson._
=How shall he give kindling in whose inward
man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out
to a dead grammatical cinder?= _Carlyle._
=How shall we know whether you are in earnest,
if the deed does not accompany the
word?= _Schiller._
=How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To
have a thankless child!= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=How small a part of time they share / That
are so wondrous sweet and fair!= _E. Waller._
=How small, of all that human hearts endure, /= 30
=That part which laws or kings can cause or
cure! / Still to ourselves, in every place
consigned, / Our own felicity we make or
find.= _Johnson._
=How should he be easy who makes other men's
cares his own?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How should thy virtue be above the shocks
and shakings of temptation, when even the
angels kept not their first estate, and man
in Paradise so soon fell from innocence?=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by
night, / Like softest music to attending ears!=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=How soon "not now" becomes "never!"=
_Luther._
=How sour sweet music is, when time is broke= 35
=and no proportion kept! So is it in the
music of men's lives.= _Rich. II._, v. 5.
=How still the evening is, / As hushed on purpose
to grace harmony!= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=How sweet it is to hear one's own convictions
from a stranger's mouth!= _Goethe._
=How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this
bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds
of music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness
and the night / Become the touches of sweet
harmony.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=How the sight of means to do ill deeds / Make
deeds ill done!= _King John_, iv. 2.
=How the world wags!= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. 40
=How they gleam like spirits through the
shadows of innumerable eyes from their
thrones in the boundless depths of heaven!=
_Carlyle, on the stars._
=How use doth breed habit in a man!= _Two
Gent. of Ver._, v. 4.
=How vainly seek / The selfish for that happiness
denied / To aught but virtue!= _Shelley._
=How we clutch at shadows= (in this dream-world)
=as if they were substances, and
sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most
awake!= _Carlyle._
=How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /= 45
=Seem to me all the uses of this world.=
_Ham._, i. 2.
=How well he's read, to reason against reading!=
_Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=How were friendship possible? In mutual
devotedness to the good and true, otherwise
impossible; except as armed neutrality
or hollow commercial league.= _Carlyle._
=How wonderful is Death, / Death and his
brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning
moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other,
rosy as the morn, / When, throned on ocean's
wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both
so passing wonderful.= _Shelley._
=How wounding a spectacle is it to see those
who were by Christ designed for fishers of
men, picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly
wrangling about them too!= _Decay of
Piety._
=How wretched is the man that hangs on by
the favours of the great!= _Burns._
=Howe'er it be, it seems to me / 'Tis only noble= 5
=to be good. / Kind hearts are more than
coronets, / And simple faith than Norman
blood.= _Tennyson._
=However, an old song, though to a proverb an
instance of insignificance, is generally the
only coin a poet has to pay with.= _Burns._
=However brilliant an action, it should not be
esteemed great unless the result of a great
motive.= _La Roche._
=However far a man goes, he must start from
his own door.= _Pr._
=However varied the forms of destiny, the
same element are always present.= _Schopenhauer._
=Howsoever thou actest, let heaven be moved= 10
=with thy purpose; let the aim of thy deeds
traverse the axis of the earth.= _Schiller._
=Huc propius me, / Dum doceo insanire omnes,
vos ordine adite=--Come near me all in order,
and I will convince you that you are mad, every
one. _Hor._
=Huic maxime putamus malo fuisse nimiam
opinionem ingenii atque virtutis=--This I
think to have been the chief cause of his misfortune,
an overweening estimate of his own
genius and valour. _Nep., of Themistocles._
=Huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia
fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres, quodcunque
ageret=--This man's genius was so versatile,
so equal to every pursuit, that you would
pronounce him to have been born for whatever
thing he was engaged on. _Livy, on the elder
Cato._
=Human action is a seed of circumstances= (_Verhängnissen_)
=scattered in the dark land of the
future and hopefully left to the powers that
rule human destiny.= _Schiller._
=Human beliefs, like all other natural growths,= 15
=elude the barriers of system.= _George Eliot._
=Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares
and poison in the provisions of life, and are
allured by their appetites to their destruction.=
_Swift._
=Human courage should rise to the height of
human calamity.= _Gen. Lee._
=Human creatures will not go quite accurately
together, any more than clocks will.=
_Carlyle._
=Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in
the flesh.= _Sen._
=Human intellect, if you consider it well, is the= 20
=exact summary of human worth.= _Carlyle._
=Human judgment is finite, and it ought always
to be charitable.= _W. Winter._
=Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.=
_Greville._
=Human life is a constant want, and ought to
be a constant prayer.= _S. Osgood._
=Human life is everywhere a state in which
much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.=
_Johnson._
=Human life is more governed by fortune than= 25
=by reason.= _Hume._
=Human nature in its fulness is necessarily
human; without love, it is inhuman; without
sense= (_nous_), =inhuman; without discipline,
inhuman.= _Ruskin._
=Human nature ... / Is not a punctual presence,
but a spirit / Diffused through time
and space.= _Wordsworth._
=Human nature= (_Menschheit_) =we owe to father
and mother, but our humanity= (_Menschlichkeit_)
=we owe to education.= _Weber._
=Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback;
set it up on one side, and it tumbles
over on the other.= _Luther._
=Human society is made up of partialities.= 30
_Emerson._
=Humani nihil alienum=--Nothing that concerns
man is indifferent to me. _M._
=Humanität sei unser ewig Ziel=--Be humanity
evermore our goal. _Goethe._
=Humanitati qui se non accommodat, / Plerumque
pœnas oppetit superbiæ=--He who does
not conform to courtesy generally pays the
penalty of his haughtiness. _Phædr._
=Humanity is about the same all the world
over.= _Donn Piatt._
=Humanity is better than gold.= _Goldsmith._ 35
=Humanity is constitutionally lazy.= _J. G. Holland._
=Humanity is great but men are small.=
_Börne._
=Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying
for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.=
_Jean Paul._
=Humanity is one, and not till Lazarus is cured
of his sores will Dives be safe.= _Celia Burleigh._
=Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity= 40
=of a man.= _Adam Smith._
=Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere
est=--It is natural to love, and it is natural
also to forgive. _Plaut._
=Humanum est errare=--To err is human.
=Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity.=
_St. Augustine._
=Humbleness is always grace, always dignity.=
_Lowell._
=Humiles laborant ubi potentes dissident=--The 45
humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
_Phædr._
=Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead.=
_Collier._
=Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise,
and yet everybody is content to hear. The
master thinks it good doctrine for his servant,
the laity for the clergy, and the clergy
for the laity.= _Selden._
=Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding
good influence, that we can scarce purchase
it too dear.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Humility is often a feigned submission which
we employ to supplant others.= _La Roche._
=Humility is the altar upon which God wishes
that we should offer Him His sacrifices.= _La
Roche._
=Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom.= _Jeremy
Collier._
=Humility is the only true wisdom by which we
prepare our minds for all the possible vicissitudes
of life.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Humility is the solid foundation of all the
virtues.= _Confucius._
=Humility, that low, sweet root / From which= 5
=all heavenly virtues shoot.= _Moore._
=Humour has justly been regarded as the
finest perfection of poetic genius. He who
wants it, be his other gifts what they may,
has only half a mind; an eye for what is
above him, not for what is about him or
below him.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting,
as it were, into our affections what is
below us, while sublimity draws down into
our affections what is above us.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is consistent with pathos, while wit is
not.= _Coleridge._
=Humour is of a genial quality and is closely
allied to pity.= _Henry Giles._
=Humour is properly the exponent of low= 10
=things; that which first renders them poetical
to the mind.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is the mistress of tears.= _Thackeray._
=Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine,
bathes its objects in a genial and
abiding light.= _Whipple._
=Hundreds of people can talk for one who can
think, but thousands can think for one who
can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy,
and religion all in one.= _Ruskin._
=Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy.= _Pr._
=Hunger is a good cook.= _Gael. Pr._ 15
=Hunger is the best sauce.= _Pr._
=Hunger will break through stone walls.= _Pr._
=Hungry bellies have no ears.= _Pr._
=Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.= _Wordsworth._
=Hunters generally know the most vulnerable= 20
=part of the beast they pursue by the care
which every animal takes to defend the side
which is weakest.= _Goldsmith._
=Hunting was the labour of savages in North
America, but the amusement of the gentlemen
of England.= _Johnson._
=Hurtar el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios=--To
steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's
sake. _Sp. Pr._
=Husbands can earn money, but only wives can
save it.= _Pr._
=Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, /
That he might not beteem the winds of
heaven / Visit her face too roughly.= _Ham._,
i. 2.
=Hypotheses non fingo=--I frame no hypotheses. 25
_Sir Isaac Newton._
[Greek: Haploun to dikaion, rhadion to alêthes]--Justice
is simple, truth easy. _Lycurgus._
=Hypothesen sind Wiegenlieder, womit der
Lehrer seine Schüler einlullt=--Hypotheses
are the lullabies with which the teacher lulls his
scholars to sleep. _Goethe._
=Hysteron proteron=--The last first, or the cart
before the horse. _Gr._