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Henry Wadsworth Lo




Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Henry Van Dyke




Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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H Hahn Blavatsky




He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven.
H Hahn Blavatsky




Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.
H Hahn Blavatsky




When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One - the inner sound which kills the outer.
H Hahn Blavatsky




Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
H Hahn Blavatsky




Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil
H Hahn Blavatsky




Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
H Hahn Blavatsky




Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
H Hahn Blavatsky




Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.
H Hahn Blavatsky




Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
H. A. Kramers




In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
H. A. Overstreet




To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. Allen Smith




When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
H. Allen Smith




The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
H. Allen Smith




When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
H. Allen Smith, "L




On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
H. E. Martz




He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."
H. E. Martz




He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.
H. G. Mendelson




Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.
H. G. Wells




We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H. G. Wells




We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H. G. Wells




Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells




After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells




'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.
H. G. Wells




I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
H. G. Wells, 1903




The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
H. G. Wells, Prefa




It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.
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