How hardly man the lesson learns, / To smile, and bless the hand that spurns: / To see the blow, to feel the pain, / And render only love again! Anon.
How hardly shall they who have riches enter 30 into the kingdom of God! Jesus.
How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester. 2 Hen. IV., v. 5.
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil! Carlyle.
How is each of us so lonely in the wide bosom of the All? Jean Paul.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning. Swift.
How little do the wantonly or idly officious 35 think what mischief they do by their malicious insinuations, indirect impertinence, or thoughtless babblings! Burns.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. Ovid.
How long halt ye between two opinions? Bible.
How long I have lived, how much lived in vain! / How little of life's scanty span may remain! / What aspects old Time in his progress has worn! / What ties cruel fate in my bosom has torn! / How foolish, or worse, till our summit is gain'd! / And downward, how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd! Burns.