Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the … - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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.

Desire, Fire, Hate, Opposites, Though, Water

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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

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

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

Forward, Genius, Looks, Sees

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We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

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