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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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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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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
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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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There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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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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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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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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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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A fool and his words are soon parted.
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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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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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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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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
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It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
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