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

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

vanity sick law

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

hate fire opposites

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

laughter creatures men

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! T... by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Broo...

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

errors roots comfort

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.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

differences men mean

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

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it e... by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Broo...

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

sacrifice love

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

prejudice men country

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination;... by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Broo...

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

examination increase beauty

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

admiration 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!

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

generosity giving men

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

assessment deceived men

Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both il... by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Broo...

Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

masters fire people

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

defects sometimes character

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

deceived deception

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

men art fall

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

maturity flower beauty

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior s... by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Broo...

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

too-much honor would-be

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

play sports men

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

uniforms character men