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