Exposed Quote by William Shenstone Download Open image “Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.” — William Shenstone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exposed Fragrance
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The beauty in words is realized only by actions as fragrance is there in flowers but it is felt only by smelling. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
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… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it? — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab… — Mordechai Vanunu Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman. — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
