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The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English poet
Notes from Life, “Money” (1853)

Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world,
Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind
A voice that in the distance far away
Wakens the slumbering ages.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English poet
Philip Van Artevelde, Part I, act I, sc. 5 (1834)

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.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English poet
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 18 (1936)

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.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English poet
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 4 (1936)

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English poet
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 9 (1936)

The mode of flattery … best adapted to the purposes of a statesman is the flattery of listening.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English poet
The Statesman, ch. 31 (1836)