Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Quotes

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• O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

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  Vanity, Law, Sick

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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• Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

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  Hate, Fire, Opposites

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• Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

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  Laughter, Men, Creatures

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• It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.

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  Mean, Men, Differences

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• Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

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  Errors, Roots, Comfort

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• If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

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  Weed, Flower, Mind

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• Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

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  Love, Sacrifice

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• You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

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  Country, Men, Prejudice

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• The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

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  Beauty, Examination, Increase

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• How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

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  Ignorance, Perfection, Admiration

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• How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

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  Men, Generosity, Giving

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• No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

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  Men, Deceived, Assessment

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• Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

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  Fire, People, Masters

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• There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

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  Character, Sometimes, Defects

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• Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

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  Inspiration, Ideas, Giving

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• If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

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  Blood, Atheism, Delight

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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• One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

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  Country, Men, Practice

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• Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

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  Looks, Genius

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• The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

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  Truth, Eye, Mind

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• There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

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  Passion, Ambition, Character

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• Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

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  Men, Views, Strange

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• Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

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  Men, Speech, Parrots

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• Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

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  Pleasure, Young

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• Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

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  Boys, Men, Might

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• No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

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  Women, Possession, Tenderness

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