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Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale, clergyman and author (1822-1909)

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. -Richard Haliburton

You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. -Judge Hall

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. -Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, -- quieter, warmer. -Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel laureate (1905-1961)

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? -Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist (1895-1960)

Now I see the garden that I've grown is just the same as those outside. \
The fences that, erected to protect, simply divide. -Peter Hammill

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.-Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. -Thich Nhat Hanh

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965)

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -G. H. Hardy

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. -Jim Harkins

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -Lucille S. Harper

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. -Sydney J. Harris

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.-Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. -Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (1917-1986)

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. -Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. -Elizabeth Harrison

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ~

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. -Oliver J. Hart

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. -Bret Harte, author (1836-1902)

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed. -Jan de Hartog, playwright and novelist (1914-2002)

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. -L.P.Hartley, writer (1895-1972)

If a man hears much that a woman says, she is not beautiful. -- Haskins

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. -Vaclav Havel, writer, Czech Republic president (1936- )

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. -Stephen Hawking

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. -Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (1804-1864)

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer is as inexorable as one's self! -Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and short-story writer (1804-1864)

Easy reading is damned hard writing. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us. -Robert Hayden, poet and educator
(1913-1980)

The funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't. -Gibby Hayes

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.- William Hazlitt

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. -William Hazlitt (1778-1830) [Characteristics]

No really great man ever thought himself so. -William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist noted for literary criticism

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. 1778-1830, British Essayist, Hazlitt, William

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. Georg Hegel (1770-1831, German Philosopher)

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap. - Cynthia Heimel

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, / and you're hampered by not having any, / the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, / is simply by spinning a penny. / No - not so that chance shall decide the affair / while you're passively standing there moping; / but the moment the penny is up in the air, / you suddenly know what you're hoping. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

The road to wisdom? Well it plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

A bit beyond perception's reach / I sometimes believe I see / that life is two locked boxes / each containing the other's key. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. -Heinrich Heine

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. -Joseph Heller, novelist (1923-1999)

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions. -Ernest Hello

People change and forget to tell each other. -Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. -Mark Helprin

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. -Arthur Helps (1813-1875)

As a writer you should not judge, you should understand. -Ernest Hemingway, By-Lines

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (1942-1970)

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. -Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (500 B.C.)

The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same. -Heraclitus, philosopher (Ca. 540-470 BCE)

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -Heraclitus, philosopher (c. 540-470 BCE)

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. -Johann Gottfried Von Herder, critic and poet (1744-1803)

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances. -Don Herold

If a little labour, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.-Robert Herrick {1591-1674 British Poet}

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. -Emile Herzog, writer (1885-1967)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. -Theodore M. Hesburgh, educator (1917- )

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel, theology professor (1907-1972)

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -Herman Hesse

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. -Cullen Hightower

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe. -Cullen Hightower

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos. Cullen Hightower

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes. -Cullen Hightower, salesman and writer (1923- )

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
-Napoleon Hill {American Speaker and Motivational Writer}

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. -Napoleon Hill

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. -Napoleon Hill

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (1919- )

Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears her grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge - from which new sorrows will be born for others - then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.- Etty Hillesum (1942)

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.- Conrad Hilton (1887-1979, American Hotelier, Businessman, Founder of Hilton Hotels)

Walking is man's best medicine. -Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 BC)

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. -Hippocrates, physician (460-c.377 BCE)

The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body is different. -Hippocrates, physician (460-c.377 BCE)

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. -Alfred Hitchcock, film-maker (1899-1980)

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. -Alfred Hitchcock, film-maker (1899-1980)

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. -Alfred Hitchcock, film-maker (1899-1980)

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. -The Hitopadesa

Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. -Russell Hoban [Novelists in Interview]

The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see. -Russell Hoban, author (1925- )

Curiosity is a lust of the mind. -Thomas Hobbes

Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. -Abbie Hoffman

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann, painter (1880-1966)

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. Isabelle Holland

The heart is wiser than the intellect. -Josiah Holland (1819-1881)

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -John Andrew Holmes

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. -John Andrew Holmes

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

There's nothing that keeps its youth, / So far as I know, but a tree and truth. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., justice (1841-1935)

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us. -Oliver Wendell Holmes..U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. -Fred Hoyle, Astronomer, mathematician, writer (1915- )

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.-Herbert Hoover

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." -Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. -Horace

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.-Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. -Stanley Horowitz

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. -Ed Howe

A thief believes everybody steals. E.W. Howe

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. -Edgar Watson Howe, novelist and editor (1853-1937)

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. -Hsi-Tang

Elbert Hubbard {1859-1915 American Author & Publisher}

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. -Kin Hubbard

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. -Kin Hubbard

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -Kin Hubbard

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt. -Kin Hubbard, humorist (1868-1930)

If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell them something for their own good. -Kin Hubbard

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. -Kin Hubbard, humorist (1868-1930)

I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake. -Bob Hudson

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. -Victor Hugo

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. -Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885)

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885)

Men hate those to whom they have to lie. -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885)

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. -Harold S. Hulbert

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.-Hubert H. Humphrey {1911-1978 American Democratic Politician & Vice President}

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. - Hubert Humphrey

The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life - the sick, the needy and the handicapped. -Hubert Horatio Humphrey, US Vice President (1911-1978)

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.-Fannie Hurst, writer (1889-1968)

I started out wanting to change the world, in the end I realised I could only change myself, and honey, that ain't easy - Zora Neale Hurston

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard Hutchins

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. -Robert Maynard Hutchins

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -Robert Maynard Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. -Robert M. Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)

Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? -Thomas Henry Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895)

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -Thomas Henry Huxley

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -T.H. Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -Thomas Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)

What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. -Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)