Henry Taylor: Quotes about the world

Henry Taylor was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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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

Money.
Notes from Life (1853)

Men , Money , World

“Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.”

Henry Taylor

Money.
Notes from Life (1853)

Love , Money , World , Nature

“We figure to ourselves
The thing we like; and then we build it up,
As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,—
For thought is tired of wandering o’er the world,
And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.”

Henry Taylor

Act I, sc. 5.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)

World , Chance

“Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world,
Vanish like lighting, but they leave behind
A voice that in the distance far away
Wakens the slumbering ages.”

Henry Taylor

Act I, sc. 7.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
Variant: Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world,
Vanish like lighting, but they leave behind
A voice that in the distance far away
Wakens the slumbering ages.

Age , World , Soul

“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.”

Henry Taylor

Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 17. p. 121

World , Motivation , Change , Loss

“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.”

Henry Taylor

Act I, sc. 5.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)

Men , World