Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor
British freestyle swimmer who won three gold medals in the 1908 Olympics, followed by a bronze in both 1912 and 1920.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth17 March 1885
betrayal men secret
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
fallen large nature powers
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
english-dramatist
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
english-dramatist spur
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
english-dramatist essence generosity gives readily throw
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
time eternity cures
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.
ambition may littles
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
running tired rocks
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.
men world greatest-man
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
fall character men
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
character men tests
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
strong blood law
...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.
pluck
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
poison body glory
His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.