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Habit
Habit: For use almost can change the stamp of nature And either curb the devil, or throw him out
Humble
Humble: Stoop, boys: this gate Instructs you how to adore the heavens; and bows you To morning's holy office: The gates of monarchs Are…
Hanging
Hanging: O the charity of a penny cord! it sums up thousands in a trice: you have no true debitor and creditor but it: of what's past, is…
Hangmen
Hangmen: Some of the best of them were hereditary hangmen.
Happiness
Happiness: Hitting Each object with a joy; the counterchange
Harmony Of The Spheres
Harmony Of The Spheres: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the…
Hatred
Hatred: Were half to half the world by th' ears, and he Upon my party, I'd revolt, to make Only my wars with him: he is a lion C.il That I…
Heart
Heart: A good leg will fall; a strait back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will…
Heir-Loom
Heir-Loom: Of six preceding ancestors, that gem Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue, Hath it been own'd and worn. A. W. v.3 It is…
Herne's Oak
Herne'S Oak: There is an old tale goes, that Herne, the hunter, Some time a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at…
Hero, Military, Pretended
Hero, Military, Pretended: Such fellows are perfect in great commanders' names: and they will learn you by rote where services are done.
Hesitation
Hesitation: Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, - A thought, which…
Highwaymen
Highwaymen: Gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.
Historian
Historian: Instructed by the antiquary times, He must, he is, he cannot but be wise.
Hit
Hit: A hit, a very palpable hit.
Holiday
Holiday: To solemnize this day, the glorious sun Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist; Turning, with splendour of his precious eye…
Homage Of Simplicity
Homage Of Simplicity: For never any thing can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it.
Home-Breeding
Home-Breeding: Out of your proof we speak: we, poor unfledg'd, Have never wing'd from view o' the nest; nor know not What air's from home.
Honesty
Honesty: Ay, Sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Honour
Honour: The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay A jewel in a…
Hope
Hope: The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow…
Horns
Horns: Why, horns; which such as you are fain to be beholden
Horror
Horror: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul…
Humility
Humility: Often to our comfort shall we find The sharded beetle in a safer hold Than is the full-wing'd eagle.
Humour
Humour: "The humour of it," quoth 'a! here's a fellow frights humour out of its wits.
Hunting
Hunting: Say, thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy: Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.