Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express:… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Might not most men be as well named boys grown old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency,… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
