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

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Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.59

Henry Taylor

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“The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.”
“Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.”
“My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.”
“I don't agree that you need an enormous number of American troops. Saddam's army is down to one-third than it was before, and I think it would be a cakewalk.”
“There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.”
“To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.”

Source : Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.122, Columbia University Press
“Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.”
“If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.”

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