In a statesman’s transactions there are many things which c… - Henry Taylor

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In a statesman’s transactions there are many things which cannot be communicated otherwise than by manner without inconvenient commitment or controversy; and that will be the most serviceable manner which can be expressive or inexpressive at pleasure, and be used as a dark lantern to his meanings.

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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Alternative Names: Sir Henry Taylor • Henry, Sir Taylor

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Jean de La Bruyère Samuel Johnson François de La Rochefoucauld William Hazlitt Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight…

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.
Where sorrow ’s held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

There are few things more important in the business of the state, than that the results of inquiry and research should be realised by those who have had the conduct of it.

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