"Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives……" — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
"Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy."
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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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20 Quotes by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
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One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is…
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How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those…
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Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together…
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Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
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There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not…
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Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may…
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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…
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Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became…
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Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature…
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Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.
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Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
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