All William Shenstone Quotes
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
William Shenstone
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
William Shenstone
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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William Shenstone
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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, simplicity to the former.
William Shenstone
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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
William Shenstone
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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 be preeminently musical.
William Shenstone
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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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 entangled in it.
William Shenstone
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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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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 the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
William Shenstone
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A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
William Shenstone
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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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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
William Shenstone
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