Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Quotes - Page 2

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• Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Flower, May, Taste

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• When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Real, Ancestry, Birth

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• It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Sports, Men, Play

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• No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Love, Fall, Maturity

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Boys, Men, Might

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• Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Beauty, Flower, Maturity

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Inspiration, Ideas, Giving

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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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• Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Women, Heat, Sensibility

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• It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Believe, Doubt, Opinion

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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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• It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Honor, Would Be, Too Much

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• If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Art, Fall, Men

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• It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Mind, Body, Remember

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