Quotes by Henry Taylor - Page 1

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Foresight
Mother
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The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Men
Knows
World
Men World Nothing
Greatest
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The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
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Advancement
Spur
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His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.
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Body
Glory
Poison
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Anticipation
Conscience
Opinions
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I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Art
Funny
Inspiring
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No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Charm
Charmed
Ears
Listening Ear
Soul
Did
Ear
Ever
Listener
Siren
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Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Ambition
Powers
Purposes
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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Ambition
Literature
May
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There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Men
Character
Tests
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Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Adversity
Disappointment
Sweet
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He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Essence
Generosity
Sacrifice
Self
Away
Gives
Readily
Throw
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When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Generosity
Giving
Order
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He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Essence
Sacrifice
Self
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Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Men
Betrayal
Secret
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He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Time
Cures
Eternity
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If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Men
Important
Share
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Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Quality
Ambition
Intellectual
Self
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Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Men
Character
Chosen
Fall
Liable
Parasites
Shy
Formed
Low
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We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Running
Rocks
Tired
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...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Blood
Law
Strong
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The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Running
Men
Ordinary
Philosophy
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Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.
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Love Is
Strong
Vices
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A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.
Henry Taylor / Dramatist
Ignorance
Secret
Years
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