Quotes by Sir Fulke Greville

Sir Fulke Greville

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

Awakening

Inspiration

Men

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

Men

Pride

Proud

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.

Causes

May

Mind

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Charity

Doe

Men

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Avarice

Demise

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Despair

Giving

Mind

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?

Connections

Prejudice

Understanding

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Ascending

Envy

Lows

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Generosity

Ill

Meanness

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.

Conquer

Generosity

Sometimes

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Avarice

Awakening

Body

Boundaries

Brain

Causes

Character

Charity

Charm

Chemistry

Children

Common

Connections

Conquer

Conversation

Creatures

Cunning

Delicacy

Demise

Despair

Different

Doe

Doors

Doubt

Enough

Envy

Expression

Extraordinary

Fashion

Favors

Freedom

Generosity

Giving

Gratitude

Grief

Humans

Ignorance

Ill

Imitation

Inspiration

Joy

Judging

Judgment

Knowledge

Lasts

Laughing

Laughter

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Quotes by Sir Fulke Greville

Sir Fulke Greville

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

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.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

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?

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

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.

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