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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.

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
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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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The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
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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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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.
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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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A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
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Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.
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A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.
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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.
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The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
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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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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.
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