The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat Nature, to make water run uphill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. Emerson.
The history of reforms is always identical; it 20 is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Emerson.
The history of the Church is a history of the invisible as well as of the visible Church; which latter, if disjoined from the former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay, pestilentially unclean; to write whose history is less important than to forward its downfall. Carlyle.
The history of the world is nothing but the history of successful or unsuccessful grumbling; operating in great things as in small, ... inculcating through all of them the great moral, that it is not good for a man to be contented with evils that he can remove. John Wagstaffe.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Bible.
The hollow sea-shell which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent. Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
The Holy Supper is kept indeed / In whatso 25 we share with another's need; / Not what we give, but what we share, / For the gift without the giver is bare. Lowell.
The honest heart that's free frae a' / Intended fraud or guile, / However Fortune kick the ba', / Has aye some cause to smile. Burns.
The honest man does that from duty which the man of honour does for the sake of character. (?)
The honest man, though e'er so poor, / Is king o' men for a' that. Burns.