Careful Words

he (n.)

he (v.)

he (adj.)

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn;

And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.

Matthew Prior (1664-1721): Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book iii. Line 240.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Eloisa to Abelard. Last line.

In part she is to blame that has been tried:

He comes too late that comes to be denied.

Mary W. Montagu: The Lady's Resolve.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,—

In part she is to blame that has been tried:

He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1690-1762): The Lady's Resolve.

  He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): Defence of Poesy.

He first deceased; she for a little tried

To live without him, liked it not, and died.

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639): Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife.

For contemplation he and valour form'd,

For softness she and sweet attractive grace;

He for God only, she for God in him.

His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd

Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks

Round from his parted forelock manly hung

Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 297.

He knew what's what.—Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 149.

  Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Old Testament: Habakkuk ii. 2.

I am not now in fortune's power:

He that is down can fall no lower.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 877.

  He that is down needs fear no fall.

John Bunyan (1628-1688): Pilgrim's Progress. Part ii.

  He that is not with me is against me.

New Testament: Luke xi. 23.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,

Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Shine by the side of every path we tread

With such a lustre, he that runs may read.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Tirocinium. Line 79.

  He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 453.

He was the Word, that spake it:

He took the bread and brake it;

And what that Word did make it,

I do believe and take it.

Dr John Donne (1573-1631): Divine Poems. On the Sacrament.

Happy the man, and happy he alone,

He who can call to-day his own;

He who, secure within, can say,

To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 65.