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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
    ― Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Miller Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
    ― Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry van Dyke Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
    ― Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Henry van Dyke Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    ― Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John Henry Newman Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
    ― John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Baron William Henry Beveridge Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
    ― Baron William Henry Beveridge
     
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  • Henry Louis Mencken War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Water is the only drink for a wise man.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Buck Henry We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
    ― Buck Henry
     
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  • Henry Kissinger We are all the President's men.
    ― Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Fielding We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
    ― Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are constantly invited to be who we are.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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