Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
More Quotes from Greville:
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at.Greville
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
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Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the Bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.
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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination if false, that it lessens.
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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.
Greville
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