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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    ― Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry Ford I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
    ― Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry James I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
    ― Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
    Source: Walden Ch 2
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Miller I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
    ― Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Patrick Henry I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
    ― Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Fielding I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    ― Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Henry Miller I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
    ― Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Patrick Henry I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
    ― Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry James I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
    ― Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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