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| Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. | Helen Keller | 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist |
| What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. | Helen Terry | |
| A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. | Henri B. Stendhal | 1783-1842, French Writer |
| A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. | Henri B. Stendhal | 1783-1842, French Writer |
| The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. | Henri Delacroix | |
| Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. | Henri Frederic Amiel | 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic |
| Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. | Henrik Tikkanen | |
| Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. | Henry C. Rogers | |
| Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
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| Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances. | Henry Giles | |
| The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
| The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
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| The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
| The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
| It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
| Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. | Henry L. Doherty | 1870-1939, American Utilities Executive/Engineer |
| All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| 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 | 1891-1980, American Author |
| Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings --as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
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| No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| All things come round to him who will but wait. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavours, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
| Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
| Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
| A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
| God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
| My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. | Henry Wheeler Shaw | 1818-1885, American Humorist |
| A library is thought in cold storage. | Herbert Samuel | 1870-1963, British Liberal Statesman , Philosophical Writer |
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| One half who graduate from college never read another book. | Herbert True | |
| Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. | Herman Cain | American Businessman, Founder of Godfather Pizza |
| For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. | Herman Melville | 1819-1891, American Author |
| Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. | Herman Melville | 1819-1891, American Author |
| Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. | Hermann Hesse | 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet |
| If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big. | Hesiod | 8th century BC, Greek Poet |
| When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'' | Hilaire Belloc | 1870-1953, British Author |
| Remote and ineffectual don. | Hilaire Belloc | 1870-1953, British Author |
| Learning is a livelihood. | Hitopadesa | 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra |
| That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice. | Hitopadesa | 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra |
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