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Most Quotes by William Shenstone
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
- 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…
- Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster