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Out of mind as soon as out of sight.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Mind
Sight
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True joy is only hope put out of fear.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Joy
True Joy
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Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Doubt
Humans
Parent
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Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Doubt
Undone
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The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Brain
Pedants
Vacant
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Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Respect
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Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Generosity
Ill
Meanness
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Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Creatures
Laughter
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A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Pride
Proud
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Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Ignorance
Manners
Unbecoming
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Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Ascending
Envy
Lows
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The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Judging
Judgment
World
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As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Charity
Doe
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I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Imitation
Littles
Mind
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Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Despair
Giving
Mind
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The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Knowledge
Men
Mind
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To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Prejudice
Self
Skins
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He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Religion
Doubt
Wells
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Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Appreciation
Smile
Charm
Companion
Conversation
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I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Nature
Men
Interiors
Particular
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We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Cunning
Ready
Should
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Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Avarice
Demise
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Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Extraordinary
Popularity
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True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Delicacy
Expression
Generosity
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Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Power
Freedom
Men
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A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Awakening
Inspiration
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Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Boundaries
Order
Prejudice
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Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Body
Character
Chemistry
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There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Gratitude
Perfection
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What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Connections
Favors
Grief
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We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Fashion
Laughing
Sheep
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Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Conquer
Generosity
Sometimes
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Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Connections
Prejudice
Understanding
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Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Medicine
Poison
Vanity
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Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Different
Lasts
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It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Enough
Lying
World
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I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Children
Parent
Reflection
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I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Common
Sight
Soul
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Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Laughing
Weak Man
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A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Causes
May
Mind
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There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Mind
Neutrality
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Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Men
Doors
Mean
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