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William Shenstone Inspirational Quotes (115)

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What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
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A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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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.
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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
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A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
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Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.
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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.
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In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
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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.
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Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
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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.
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Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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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.
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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.
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