Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor
British freestyle swimmer who won three gold medals in the 1908 Olympics, followed by a bronze in both 1912 and 1920.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth17 March 1885
english-dramatist essence generosity gives readily throw
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
english-dramatist spur
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
english-dramatist
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
fallen large nature powers
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
listening-ear soul sirens
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
sacrifice self essence
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
ambition self intellectual
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love...
ignorance years secret
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.
strong love-is 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.
order giving generosity
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
running philosophy men
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.
poison body glory
His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.
pluck
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
strong blood law
...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.