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  • Henry David Thoreau Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Miller Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
    ― Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Saul Landau Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
    ― Saul Landau
     
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
    ― Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Henry Giles People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
    ― Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow People demand freedom only when they have no power.
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau People die of fright and live of confidence.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry S. Haskins People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
    ― Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
    ― Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Henry Morgan People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
    ― Henry Morgan
     
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  • Henry Jacobsen People would rather be wrong than be different.
    ― Henry Jacobsen
    Norwegian politician (1898 - 1964)
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  • Patrick Henry Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
    ― Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry L. Doherty Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
    ― Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Henry David Thoreau Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
    ― Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Henry Kissinger Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
    ― Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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