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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places (William Shenstone Quotes)
Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage (William Shenstone Quotes)
Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them (William Shenstone Quotes)
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness (William Shenstone Quotes)
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape (William Shenstone Quotes)
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune (William Shenstone Quotes)
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one (William Shenstone Quotes)
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more (William Shenstone Quotes)
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world (William Shenstone Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood (William Shenstone Quotes)
Every single instance of a friend’s insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money (William Shenstone Quotes)
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave (William Shenstone Quotes)
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last (William Shenstone Quotes)
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy (William Shenstone Quotes)
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him (William Shenstone Quotes)
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use (William Shenstone Quotes)
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few (William Shenstone Quotes)
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden (William Shenstone Quotes)
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention (William Shenstone Quotes)
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love (William Shenstone Quotes)
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author’s comment (William Shenstone Quotes)
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality (William Shenstone Quotes)
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately (William Shenstone Quotes)
It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures (William Shenstone Quotes)
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man’s hut, as well as the palace of his superior (William Shenstone Quotes)
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches (William Shenstone Quotes)
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born (William Shenstone Quotes)
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications (William Shenstone Quotes)