 | Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 pages
...— KAHLIL GIBRAN The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears. — MARGARET ATWOOD Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — FRANCIS BACON When you only have two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...thoughts. ~ Philip Sidney, 1554-1586 ~ Little do men perceive what solitude is; and how far it extends. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love . . . Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. ~ Francis Bacon, 1561-1626... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - 2008 - 313 pages
...Unlike Guazzo, Bacon finds company inadequate to heal 'solitariness.' For, to quote Bacon more fully, 'little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For ... faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, without love ... It is a mere... | |
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But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. 
