Henry Taylor: Few

Henry Taylor was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on few.
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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 clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.”

Henry Taylor

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Notes from Life (1853)

“Few things will occasion a statesman so much embarrassment as a prevailing opinion that he will yield that to importunity which he ought to proffer to less forward parties upon juster grounds, and that whether he grants or refuses no harm can be done by asking.”

Henry Taylor

Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 29. p. 219

“Many magnify in words the importance of public duties, but few appreciate them in feeling; and that, not so much for want of feeling, as for want of carrying it out to whatever results the understanding reaches.”

Henry Taylor

Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 9. p. 64

“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.”

Henry Taylor

Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 25. p. 198

“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.”

Henry Taylor

Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 18. p. 131