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.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Vanity, Law, Sick

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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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.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Mean, Men, Differences

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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.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Hate, Fire, Opposites

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• Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Politics, Hunger, Folly

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Errors, Roots, Comfort

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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?

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Laughter, Men, Creatures

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• We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Selfishness, Reason, Discovering

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• Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, People, Prejudice

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Love, Sacrifice

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Deceived, Assessment

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• Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Character, Men, Uniforms

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• Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Grief, Writing, Silence

  'Elegy on the Death of Sir Philip Sidney'

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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.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Weed, Flower, Mind

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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.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Country, Men, Prejudice

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  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!

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  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!

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Generosity, Giving

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  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.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Character, Sometimes, Defects

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• Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Fire, Wit

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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.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  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?

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Speech, Parrots

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Boys, Men, Might

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Pleasure, Young

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Blood, Atheism, Delight

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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