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People can commend the weather without envy.

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
Gardener
Horticulturist
Poet
Writer
Greed
Envy
Weather
Without
People
Commend
Avarice

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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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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.
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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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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
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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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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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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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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.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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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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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
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Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
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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.
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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