Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of … - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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

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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.

Beauty, Dies, Flower, Lives, Maturity, Sentiment

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

Ambition, Character, Methinks, Passion, Scarce, Superiority

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

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

Forward, Genius, Looks, Sees

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

Country, Men, Practice, Catching, Meet

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