"He who gives only what he would as……" — 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."
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10 Quotes by Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
- We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on…
- The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
- The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
- The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
- Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of…
- No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of…
- Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
- Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than…