Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are swee… - Henry Taylor

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Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love…

Henry Taylor

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Sir Henry Taylor KCMG (18 October 1800 – 27 March 1886) was an English civil servant, author and dramatist.

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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.

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.

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…

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love… - Henry Taylor

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