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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Henry Taylor

Fear is the mother of foresight.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

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

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.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

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.