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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
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Patience is the panacea but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
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Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
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Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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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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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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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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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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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
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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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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.
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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.
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
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There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.
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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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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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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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