Essence Quote by Henry Taylor

“He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.” quote by Henry Taylor — Download Open image

“He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.”

Henry Taylor

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No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

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The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more…

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His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

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I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

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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…

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The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

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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…

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The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

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...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which…

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We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,-…

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The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

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