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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC (/fʊlk ˈɡrɛvɪl/; 3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628), known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.

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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.

Eye, Fitted, Full, Mind, Radiance, Truth

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.

Body, Heard, Lasting, Mind, Remember

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

Deceived, Deception, Oftener, Told, Truth

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.

Discovers, Extracts, Flower, May, Taste

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

Believe, Doubt, Happier, Numberless, Opinion, True

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

Boys, Grown, Men, Might

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

Commanded, Created, Law, Sick, Vanity

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

Manhood, Possession, Reaches, Tenderness, Women

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.

Agreeable, Men, Representation, Strange, View, Views

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.

Fall, Ground, Love, Marked, Maturity

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

Admiration, Depend, Happy, Ignorance, Perfection

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!

Generosity, Giving, Inferiority, Men, Receive

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

Creature, Creatures, Laughed, Laughter, Men

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.

Flower, Flowers, Mind, Naturally, Noisome, Weed

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

Assessment, Deceived, Man, Men

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

Cunning, Honor, Inferior, Too Much, True, Would Be

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

Beauty, Examination, False, Increase, Increases, True

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

Exacts, Friendship, Love, Sacrifice

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.

Country, Deny, Men, Prejudice, Prejudiced, Talk

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.

Idea, Ideas, Language, Man, Mean, Men

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