Not who you're looking for? Others named Henry Taylor: English playwright and poet (1800-1886) · American boxer · American planter and politician · cricketer, born 1822 (1822–1901)
“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.”
“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.”
“Good nature and kindness towards those with whom they come in personal contact, at the expense of public interests, that is of those whom they never see, is the besetting sin of public men.”
“It has been said of compliments, that men are most flattered by having the merits attributed to them which they least possess; but as it is only by liars that such compliments can be proffered, so it is only with fools that they can find a favourable acceptation.”
“When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.”
“Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love…”
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