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  • Henry David Thoreau A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • O. Henry A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
    ― O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
    ― Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Henry Newman Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
    ― John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
    ― Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
    ― Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Henry S. Haskins Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.
    Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 94
    ― Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
    ― Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Henry Miller Actors die so loud.
    ― Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry Miller After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
    ― Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry David Thoreau After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry David Thoreau All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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