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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way. — O. Henry

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry

But never mind; faint heart never won true Friend. O Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't let 'em see they killed you! — Henry V. O'Neil

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation. — O. Henry

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides. — O. Henry

It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose ... than when they do it by accident. — Henry V. O'Neil

Will you buy my hair? — O. Henry

O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey. — O. Henry

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. — Burton Raffel

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. — O. Henry

I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar. — Peter Riegert

By Thy power, let there be peace, O God! — Henry Dunant

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. — O. Henry

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache. — Henry Vaughan

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. — O. Henry

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. — O. Henry

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life — O. Henry

My life is like an O Henry story ... the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs. — Rainbow Rowell

Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom. — Flannery O'Connor

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. — David O. McKay

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true. — Flannery O'Connor

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that. — Henry V. O'Neil

That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow. — Henry V. O'Neil

I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography. — Henry V. O'Neil

Your people sell the weapons. My people use them. — Henry V. O'Neil

Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Those whom we first love we seldom marry — O. Henry

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?' — Dwight Henry

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady. — O. Henry

A holiday in a new dress-can earth offer anything more enchanting? — O. Henry

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. — O. Henry

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul. — O. Henry

When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair. — O. Henry

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather. — O. Henry

Therm-bombs! Drop 'em right on us! I been roasted before - it's nothing! — Henry V. O'Neil

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs. — O. Henry

I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.' — Henry Rollins

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! — O. Henry

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham. — O. Henry

Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author. — Sonia Rumzi

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part. — O. Henry

Bolivar cannot carry double — O. Henry

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. — O. Henry

Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks.It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends - never easy. — O. Henry

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of. — O. Henry

Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you". — O. Henry

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark. — O. Henry

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places. — O. Henry

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war. — O. Henry

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it? — O. Henry

Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling - something — O. Henry

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him. — O. Henry

Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. — O. Henry

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. — O. Henry

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
— Henry David Thoreau

In front the sea was spread, a smiling jailer, but even more incorruptible than the frowning mountains. — O. Henry

This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try. — Henry V. O'Neil

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth! — Richard Henry Dana Jr.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York — O. Henry

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal. — O. Henry

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! — Henry Austin Dobson

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it. — O. Henry

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. — O. Henry

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual. — Flannery O'Connor

Knowledge is a strong stream of water turned on us through a hose. It disturbs our roots — O. Henry

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away. — Henry V. O'Neil

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it. — O. Henry

She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed
necessary but scarcely noticed. — O. Henry

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another. — O. Henry

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer. — O. Henry

I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Write what you like; there is no other rule. — O. Henry

Our faith triumphant o'er our fears. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Because Banshees don't think much of medals! — Henry V. O'Neil

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence — O. Henry

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere. — O. Henry

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest. — Henry David Thoreau

It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak. — O. Henry

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman. — O. Henry

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain. — Maureen O'Hara

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's. — O. Henry

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. — O. Henry

O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. — O. Henry

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). — O. Henry

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. — O. Henry

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. — O. Henry