William Shenstone Quotes
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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
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Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
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People can commend the weather without envy.
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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…
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
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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…
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
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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…
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Nothing is certain in London but expense.
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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…
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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…
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A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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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…
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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