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01c. 909 AD

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Sir Henry Taylor / quote

02c. 909 AD

An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine.

Sir Henry Taylor / quote

03c. 909 AD

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

Sir Henry Taylor / quote

04c. 909 AD

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.

Sir Henry Taylor / quote

05c. 909 AD

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

Sir Henry Taylor / quote