Quotations Page 'H'

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness.It ranks immediately after health and good conscience.

- Letter to Lord Murray -

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Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam - True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home.

- Wordsworth, To a Skylark -

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Without heart there is no home.

- Byron -

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Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

- Thomas Heywood, On Homer's Birthplace -

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Man's history is waiting in paitence for the triumph of the insuleted man.

- Tagore, Stray Birds -

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Honesty is the best policy.

- Franklin -

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Honesty is really only the art of a peering honest.

- Guarini, Of the Honesty or Virtue of Women -

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

- Pope, Essay on Man -

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No legacy is so rich as Honesty.

- Shakespeare -

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A straight line is shortest in morals as well as in geometry.

- Rachel -

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Only the man of serene mind can realise the spiritual meaning of life. Honesty with oneself is the condition of spiritual integrity.

- S.Radhakrishnan -

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I could not love thee Dear, so much.Lov'd I do not honour more.

- Lovelace. To Lucasta -

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We honour the illustrious dead best by following their example.

- M.Gandhi. Harijan -

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If lose mine honourable, I lose myself.

-Shakespeare -

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What is fitting is honour; what is honourable is fitting.

- Cicero -

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Honours and great employment are great burdens.

- Massinger, Bondman -

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Hope springs in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest.

- Pope, Essay on Man -

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For where no hope is left, on fear.

- Milton, Paradise Regained -

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I cultivate hope and I see it wither daily; Alas, what does it serve to water the leaves when the tree is cut off at its foot.

- Rousseau, Juliet -

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