Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Help others and seek to avenge no injury. Fors.

Help which is long on the road is no help. Pr.

Help yourself and your friends will help you. Pr.

Helpless mortal! Thine arm can destroy 45 thousands at once, but cannot enclose even two of thy fellow-creatures at once in the embrace of love and sympathy. Jean Paul.

Hence, babbling dreams; you threaten here in vain; / Conscience, avaunt, Richard's himself again. Colley Cibber.

Her angel's face, / As the great eye of heaven, shined bright, / And made a sunshine in the shady place. Spenser.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson.

Her feet, beneath her petticoat, / Like little mice stole in and out, / As if they fear'd the light; / But oh! she dances such a way, / No sun upon an Easter-day / Is half so fine a sight. Sir J. Suckling.

Her own person, / It beggar'd all description. Ant. and Cleop., ii. 2.

Her sun is gone down while it was yet day. Bible.