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People can commend the weather without envy (William Shenstone Quotes)
Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness (William Shenstone Quotes)
Thanks, oftenest obtrusive (William Shenstone Quotes)
There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason (William Shenstone Quotes)
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true (William Shenstone Quotes)
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts (William Shenstone Quotes)
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased (William Shenstone Quotes)
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim (William Shenstone Quotes)
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun (William Shenstone Quotes)
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed (William Shenstone Quotes)
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar (William Shenstone Quotes)
A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money (William Shenstone Quotes)
Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold (William Shenstone Quotes)
A fool and his words are soon parted (William Shenstone Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence (William Shenstone Quotes)
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts, both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium (William Shenstone Quotes)
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn (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)
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion (William Shenstone Quotes)
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return (William Shenstone Quotes)
Love is a pleasing but a various clime (William Shenstone Quotes)
Theirs is the present who can praise the past (William Shenstone Quotes)
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil (William Shenstone Quotes)
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects (William Shenstone Quotes)
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world (William Shenstone Quotes)
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house (William Shenstone Quotes)
May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune (William Shenstone Quotes)
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song (William Shenstone Quotes)