WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:50:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg mending – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Taylor, Henry -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 5 (1834) https://wist.info/taylor-henry/38038/ https://wist.info/taylor-henry/38038/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:08:27 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38038 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
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
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