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Henry Taylor
English
Dramatist
About the author
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Henry Taylor,
English
Dramatist
#Men
#Opinions
#Conscience
#Anticipation
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Henry Taylor,
English
Dramatist
#Sacrifice
#Self
#Generosity
#Self sacrifice
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
Henry Taylor,
English
Dramatist
#Soul
#Listening
#Charm
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,
English
Dramatist
#Character
#Men
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
Henry Taylor,
English
Dramatist
#Hope
#Fact
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
Henry Taylor,
English
Dramatist
#Nothing
#World
#Men
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Henry Taylor,
English
Dramatist
#May
#Nature
#Ambition