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Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (May 26, 1795 – March 13, 1854) was an English judge and author.
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“In ourselves
In our own honest hearts and chainless hands
Will be our safeguard:”
In our own honest hearts and chainless hands
Will be our safeguard:”
“Fill the seats of justice
With good men, not so absolute in goodness
As to forget what human frailty is.”
With good men, not so absolute in goodness
As to forget what human frailty is.”
“Nevermore
Let the great interests of the State depend
Upon the thousand chances that may sway
A piece of human frailty; swear to me
That ye will seek hereafter in yourselves
The means of sovereignty.”
Let the great interests of the State depend
Upon the thousand chances that may sway
A piece of human frailty; swear to me
That ye will seek hereafter in yourselves
The means of sovereignty.”
“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.”
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.”
“’T is a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered 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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Thomas Noon Talfourd on Philanthropy
“'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.”
Thomas Noon Talfourd on Life
“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 on Water
“'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water: yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by feverish lips, May give a thrill of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarian juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”
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Thomas Noon Talfourd on Walter Scott
“He has done his country and his nature no ordinary service. He has brought romance almost into our own times, and made the nobleness of humanity familiar to our daily thoughts. He has enriched history to us by opening such varied and delicious vistas to our gaze, beneath the range of its loftier events and more public characters.”
About Thomas Noon Talfourd
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (May 26, 1795 – March 13, 1854) was an English judge and author.