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| Latin Proverb - H
Habit causes love.Habit gives readiness.Habit is second nature.Had he not been visited by sickness, he would have perished utterly.Hand and foot [with all our strength and resolution.]Happiness invites envy.Happy are one-eyed men in the country of the blind.Happy is the man who is out of debt.Happy the man who keeps out of strife.Hard by a river he digs a well.Hard is the path from poverty to renown.Hard things alone will not make a wall. [Some soft substance must unite them: and so with hard men--to fraternize they require some soft influence from others.]Hard with hard never made good wall.Harder than adamant.Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.Harmless lightning. [Impotent threats.]Harsh is the voice which would dismiss us, but sweet is the sound of welcome.Haste manages all things badly.Hasten gently.Hasten slowly.
[Lat., Festina lente.]Hate knows no age but death.Hatred is a settled anger.Have a care how you irritate the wasps. [Meddle not with waspish people. Attack not a combined force.]Have a care not to commence an undertaking of which you may repent.Have confidence, but beware in whom.Having achieved your purpose, seek not to undo what has been done.Having mastered the lesser difficulties, you will more safely venture on greater achievements.Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.He acts wisely who says little.He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all the contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and is struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.He argues in vain who argues without means.He assumes a cheerful countenance suppressing the grief which weighs heavily on his heart.He can carry the ox who has carried the calf.He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook.He conquers who conquers himself.He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour.He dies before he is old who is wise before his day.He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.He does not show a decent quality even over a good dinner.He drives out one devil by another.He either wheedles by suasive means or terrifies by threats.He even begrudges the water with which he washes.He falls into the pit which he himself made.He falls short of his duty to both who tries to serve two masters.He fears neither the earthquake nor the fury of the waves.He fears the very flies.He feigns death like a panther.He fell to-day, I may fall to-morrow.He fishes in troubled waters. [If you wish to catch gudgeons stir up the mud.]He fishes well who uses a golden hook.He fishes well who uses a golden hook.He flourishes by hereditary renown.He forgets himself.He gets his wisdom cheaply who gets it at another's cost.He gives neither too little, nor too much.He gives too late who waits to be asked.He gives well and bountifully who accompanies the gift with a pleasing look.He giveth twice that gives in a trice.He goes beyond the bounds.He has eyes in the back of his head.He has left no means untried.He has not even a clod of earth left to cover his remains. [A man reduced to extreme poverty.]He has not leisure even to scratch his ears.He has sprung up like a mushroom.He has tasted of the lotus.He hath not a farthing left wherewith to buy a rope to hang himself.He invokes heaven if a flea bites him.He is a fool that makes his doctor his heir.He is a fool who spares the children after having killed the father.He is a wise man who accommodates himself to all circumstances.He is but a poor husbandman, who sows in sand.He is caught in his own snare.He is consumed by a vain hope.He is full of sweet faults.He is happy that thinks himself so.He is his own enemy.He is hunting for water in the sea.He is indeed a conqueror who conquers himself.He is looking out for a fig. [He is planning for himself.]He is not happy who does not realize his happiness.He is not wise that is not wise for himself.He is rich enough that want nothing.He is separated from the water by a plank.He is the architect of his own fortunes.He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another.He is wise in vain who does not use his wisdom for his own advantage.He is wise to no purpose, who is not wise for himself.He is wise, who suits himself to the occasion.He keeps watch over a good castle who has guarded his own constitution.He knows the roads by which he has escaped before.He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person.He labours in vain who attempts to please everybody.He lives the life of a hare. [Ever in fear.]He makes a lion of a mouse.He makes idle boasting.He moistens the lips, but leaves the palate dry. [Trifling assistance, of little or no use. ]He opens the theatre, and immediately closes it. [He raises expectation, and crushes it at the same time.]He ploughs the land of others, and leaves his own untilled.He prepares evil for himself who plots mischief for others.He puts up with small annoyances to gain great results.He says what is wholly irrelevant.He seeks renown by public applause.He seeks to live like a parasite. [He wants to sponge upon somebody.]He shaves close to the skin.He sings his own praises.He smells best that smells of nothing.He spends the happiest life who knows nothing.He suffers from the same disease. [He is in the same difficulty.]He suffocates me with kindness.He talks to a dead man.He that asketh faintly beggeth a denial.He that flies may fight another day.He that gives bad counsel suffers most by it.He that has been hurt, fears.He that lies on the ground can fall no lower.He that shoots oft shall at last hit the mark.He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.He thinks nothing right, but what he does himself.He throws a cloud over happiness. [A kill-joy; a mar-feast.]He took care to enjoy himself as long as life lasted. [N.B. A good epitaph for an alderman.]He unravels the enigmas of the Sphinx.He utters in his language something different from what he ponders in his mind.He who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed.He who cannot conceal his sentiments, knows not how to live.He who cannot do what he wishes, must needs do as he can.He who cannot even manage a yacht asks for a ship of burthen!He who does a thing through another does it himself.
[Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]He who does not advance recedes.He who does not fully speak the truth is a traitor to it.He who does not speak the whole truth is a traitor to truth.He who endures with patience is a conqueror.He who envies his admits his inferiority.He who fears every bramble should not go to the woods.He who follows two hares loses both.He who has come to the mill first does not grind last.He who has once used deception will deceive again.He who has plenty of pepper may season his food as he likes.He who has received a kindness forgets it; he who has been injured remembers it. [To benefit one and injure another at the same time is a losing game, for revenge is a stronger feeling than gratitude.]He who has tried it, is afraid of it.He who hastens to be rich will not be without fault.He who hastens too much stumbles and falls.He who hath lost his good name how shall he in future gain his living.He who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.He who is in love with himself need fear no rival.He who knows not how to employ his leisure hath more cares on his mind than the most busy of busily-engaged men.He who lies down with dogs will rise with fleas.He who lies on the ground cannot fall.He who lives by medical treatment has but a wretched existence.He who loves a one-eyed girl thinks that one-eyed girls are beautiful.He who makes too much haste gains his end later.He who owes nothing fears not the sheriff's officer.He who paints the flower cannot paint its fragrance.He who spares the rod hates his son.He who takes it to himself, he it is who has done the act.He who waits till an opportunity occurs may wait for ever.He who would catch is caught.He who would speak well should well consider his subject beforehand.He will die before he's old who's wise before his time.He will embark in litigation, even if a donkey has bitten his dog.He won't give us so much as the skin.He writes with an iron pen. [That which he writes will not be easily altered.]He, who denies his faults, makes no atonement for them.He, who neglects the little, loses the greater.Hear all, say nothing.Hear both sides of a question.Hear the other side.
[Lat., Audi alteram partem.]Hear, see, and be silent.Hearing he hears not. He is deaf to entreaty. [Aliter., To feign deafness.]Help by actions, not by words.Help him who is willing to work, not him who shrinks from it.Hercules himself could not cope with two assailants.Hidden valour is as bad as cowardice.Him whom Jove would destroy he first deprives of his reason. [Arrogant, insolent, and vainglorious people work out their own ruin.]His heart fell down to his heels.His illness is more mental than bodily.His presents conceal a baited hook.His tongue says little, but powerful is his right arm.Hitherto I gave you credit for having horns. [I gave you credit for not being wanting in courage.]Holyday time will not last forever.Homer sometimes nods.Honesty with poverty is better than ill-gotten wealth.Honey cloys.Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and unprincipled in conduct.Honour's onerous.Honourable words by the bushel!Hope gives strength and courage, and saves an otherwise dying man from his grave.Hope is our only comfort in adversity.Hope supports men in distress.Hope sustains the farmer.How changed from what he was!How great the sufferings we endure.How many accidents keep human life a rolling.How much do we resemble that filthy brute the ape!How near to guilt without actual guilt.How quickly with all is a kindness forgotten!How to live happily, not luxuriously, is the question.How you come by it no one asks; but wealth you must have.However extravagant men's desires, they hope to see them gratified.Hunger and delay raise up anger.Hunger sharpens anger.Hunger sweetens everything but itself.Hunger teaches us many a lesson.Hypocritical piety is double iniquity. |
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