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• The world knows nothing of its greatest men. -- Sir Henry Taylor (1800-?
  ) -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part i, Act i, Sc. 5...
• 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....
• 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.
  -- Sir Henry Taylor (1800-?) -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part i, Act i, Sc. 7...
• He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that.
  'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them....
• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc. 5...
• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
  -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- Arcadia, Book i...
• I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. -- Lucy Van Pel
• The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act v, Sc. 4...
• What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily
  wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win....