William Shenstone Quotes

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• What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
• A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
• Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
• People can commend the weather without envy.
• Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's…
• A fool and his words are soon parted.
• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
• Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
• I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to…
• There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
• 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…
• Nothing is certain in London but expense.
• 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…
• Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an…
• A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
• The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
• It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for…
• A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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