William Shenstone Quotes

» The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

» Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

» The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

» A fool and his words are soon parted.

» Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

» Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

» What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

» Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

» A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

» Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

» A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

» The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

» A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

» Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

» The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

» The proper means of increasing the love we bear to our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

» There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

» His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

» Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

» Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

» Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

» Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

» The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

» Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

» The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

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