Thomas Noon Talfourd Quotes

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Fill the seats of justice
With good men, not so absolute in goodness
As to forget what human frailty is.

Thomas Noon Talfourd
So his life has flowed
From its mysterious urn a sacred stream,
In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure
Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill
May hover round its surface, glides in light,
And takes no shadow from them.

Thomas Noon Talfourd
In ourselves
In our own honest hearts and chainless hands
Will be our safeguard

Thomas Noon Talfourd
Nevermore
Let the great interests of the State depend
Upon the thousand chances that may sway
A piece of human frailty; swear to me
That ye will seek hereafter in yourselves
The means of sovereignty.

Thomas Noon Talfourd
'T is a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.

Thomas Noon Talfourd
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

Thomas Noon Talfourd
To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Thomas Noon Talfourd
The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

Thomas Noon Talfourd
It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.

Thomas Noon Talfourd