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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804Letter to the Daily Advertiser (21 February 1797)
When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
Armand Hammer1898–1990
- Luck
- Work
I won’t play the sap for you.
Dashiell Hammett1894–1961The Maltese Falcon (1930), Chapter 20In context
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Reader’s Digest (May 1979)
In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey1918–2009
And now you know⁠—the rest of the story.
Paul Harvey1918–2009Regular tag lines
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
HHHenry Stanley HaskinsOften credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
Václav Havel1936–2011Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1: Growing Up “Outside”, p. 11
- Change
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in The Daily News (4 August 1994). A nearly identical quote can be found at the end of the second paragraph of his lecture Life in the Universe (1996).
- Technology
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological — technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018From Hawking’s article A Brief History of Relativity, in Time magazine (31 December 1999)
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1836
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XX: The Flower of Eden
- Change
- Happiness
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1836
The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 333