WIST Quotations

Taylor, Henry -- “Money,” Notes from Life (1847)

Dave — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:21:31 +0000

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 (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
“Money,” Notes from Life (1847)
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Taylor, Henry -- Notes from Life, “Money” (1853)

Dave — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:47:12 +0000

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

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
Notes from Life, “Money” (1853)

Taylor, Henry -- Notes from Life, “Of Money” (1853)

Dave — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:48:39 +0000

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

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
Notes from Life, “Of Money” (1853)
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Taylor, Henry -- Notes from Life, “Wisdom” (1847)

Dave — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:10:04 +0000

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 (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
Notes from Life, “Wisdom” (1847)
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Taylor, Henry -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 5 (1834)

Dave — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:08:27 +0000

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.
Where sorrow’s held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
Philip Van Artevelde, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 5 (1834)
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Taylor, Henry -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part I, act I, sc. 5 (1834)

Dave — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:28:28 +0000

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.

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
Philip Van Artevelde, Part I, act I, sc. 5 (1834)

Taylor, Henry -- The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 17 (1836)

Dave — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:50:02 +0000

Considering the temptations under which politicians are placed, of changing their opinions, or rather their professions of opinion, from motives of self interest, the world will not give them credit for motives of honest conviction, unless when the change shall be to their manifest loss and disadvantage.

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 17 (1836)
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Taylor, Henry -- The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 18 (1836)

Dave — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:26:43 +0000

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 (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 18 (1836)

Taylor, Henry -- The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 21 (1836)

Dave — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:32:45 +0000

The pretext for indecisiveness is commonly mature deliberation; but in reality indecisive men occupy themselves less in deliberation than others; for to him who fears to decide, deliberation (which has a foretaste of that fear) soon becomes intolerably irksome, and the mind escapes from the anxiety of it into alien themes.

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 21 (1836)
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Taylor, Henry -- The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 3 (1836)

Dave — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:21:38 +0000

In our judgment of men, we are to beware of giving any great importance to occasional acts. By acts of occasional virtue weak men endeavour to redeem themselves in their own estimation, vain men to exalt themselves in that of mankind.

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 3 (1836)
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Taylor, Henry -- The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 31 (1836)

Dave — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:12:07 +0000

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

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 31 (1836)

Taylor, Henry -- The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 4 (1836)

Dave — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:10:40 +0000

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 (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 4 (1836)

Taylor, Henry -- The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 9 (1836)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 18:00:00 +0000

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

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 9 (1836)