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Quotes - Henry


I am not a Virginian, but an American.

Patrick Henry

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry

This thing they call love is as common around New York as it is in Sheboygan during the young onion season.

O Henry

None so blind as those that will not see.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, which in our eyes are formidable, in his are despicable.

Matthew Henry

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.

William Henry

The better day, the worse deed.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Patrick Henry

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Patrick Henry

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

To fish in troubled waters.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

All this, and Heaven too!

Philip Henry

They that die by famine die by inches.

Matthew (Mathew) Henry

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the siren, till she transforms us into beasts.

Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force: Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Patrick Henry

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

Give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Patrick Henry

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