The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Sir Henry Taylor

8 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

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.— filed under Fancy
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.— filed under Influence
An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine.— filed under Light
Smith (on the Death of Garrick). He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.— filed under Mourning
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.— filed under Obscurity
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. "Tis an ill cure 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel have no time to feel them.— filed under Time
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.— filed under Character
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.— filed under Greatness
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