 | 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
...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 and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world... | |
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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. 
