"People can commend the weather without envy." — William Shenstone
"People can commend the weather without envy."
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William Shenstone
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44 Quotes by William Shenstone
William Shenstone has 44 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose,…
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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…
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I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an…
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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,…
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More Avarice Quotes
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people?…
— Tecumseh
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your…
— Thomas Merton
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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