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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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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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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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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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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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Patience is the panacea but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
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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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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 best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
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Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
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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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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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Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
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