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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.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
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I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
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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 weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
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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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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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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.
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A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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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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To one who said, I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world, another replied, It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself.
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Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
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However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty and simplicity is essential to grandeur.
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