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An unreflected light did never yet
Dazzle the vision feminine.
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The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
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A statesman should steer by the compass, but he must lie with the wind.
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His food
Was glory, which was poison to his mind
And peril to his body.
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The hand which executes a measure should belong to the head which propounds it.
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A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret.
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I have not skill
From such a sharp and waspish word as "No"
To pluck the sting.
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The conscience of a statesman should be rather a strong conscience than a tender conscience.
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One who would thrive by seeking favours from the great, should never trouble them for small ones.
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The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
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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.
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For no syren did ever so charm the ear of the listener, as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the syren.
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Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love…
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It is very certain that there may be met with, in public life, a species of conscience which is all bridle and no spurs.
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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.
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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.
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To choose that which will bring him the most credit with the least trouble, has hitherto been the sole care of the statesman in office.
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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.
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To flesh your friend's curiosity, and then endeavour to leave him with a hûc usque, is exposing your faculty of reticence to an unnecessary trial.
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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…
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It is of far greater importance to a statesman to make one friend who will hold out with him for twenty years, than to find twenty followers in each year, losing as many.
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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.
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There are few things more important in the business of the state, than that the results of inquiry and research should be realised by those who have had the conduct of it.
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He who has once advanced by a stride will not be content to advance afterwards by steps. Public servants, therefore, like racehorses, should be well fed with reward, but not to fatness.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Henry Taylor
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Born:
October 18, 1800
Died:
March 27, 1886
(aged 85)
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