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William Shenstone Quotes

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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical  (William Shenstone Quotes) Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?  (William Shenstone Quotes) In every village marked with little spire, embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame  (William Shenstone Quotes) Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes, desirous still, still impotent to rise  (William Shenstone Quotes) A little bench of heedless bishops here, and there a chancellor in embryo  (William Shenstone Quotes) Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness  (William Shenstone Quotes) Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment  (William Shenstone Quotes) Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments  (William Shenstone Quotes) Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases  (William Shenstone Quotes) Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it  (William Shenstone Quotes) A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind  (William Shenstone Quotes) A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich  (William Shenstone Quotes) Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty  (William Shenstone Quotes) Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty  (William Shenstone Quotes) The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite  (William Shenstone Quotes) Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable  (William Shenstone Quotes) In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one’s friends  (William Shenstone Quotes) Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar  (William Shenstone Quotes) Their books of stature small they take in hand, which with pellucid horn secured are; to save from finger wet the letters fair  (William Shenstone Quotes) Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together  (William Shenstone Quotes) Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it  (William Shenstone Quotes) Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty  (William Shenstone Quotes) Not the entrance of a cathedral, not the sound of a passing bell, not the furs of a magistrate, nor the sables of a funeral, were fraught with half the solemnity of face!  (William Shenstone Quotes) The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy’s camp, with a resolution to recover it  (William Shenstone Quotes) The persons who have the most sublime contempt for money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it enables them to procure  (William Shenstone Quotes) I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular, that slides like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality  (William Shenstone Quotes) Ah, how much less all living loves to me, than that one rapture of remembering thee  (William Shenstone Quotes) Superiority in wit is more frequently the cause of vanity than superiority of judgment; as the person that wears an ornamental sword is even more vain than he that wears a useful one  (William Shenstone Quotes) The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character  (William Shenstone Quotes) A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic; the weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar  (William Shenstone Quotes)
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