Thomas Noon Talfourd Quotes

• Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

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  Inspirational, Men, Justice

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.113

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• Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.

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  Rain, Rivers, Giving

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837). “Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.16

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• So his life has flowed, From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure, Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill, May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Life, Beautiful, Light

  "Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts (Act I, Scene 1)". Book by Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1835.

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• The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

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  Discovery, Skills, Humanity

  Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Stephen (1854). “Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings”, p.77

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• In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard

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  Heart, Honest

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• It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.

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  Fall, Littles, Comfort

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.18

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• To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

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  Distance, Past, Childhood

  Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Stephen (1854). “Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings”, p.102

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• Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

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  Feelings, Gentleman, Mind

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• Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  Thomas Noon Talfourd (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.5

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