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A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
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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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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
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Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
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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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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
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I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life birth itself does but little.
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Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
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Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
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When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
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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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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
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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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When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments when to those of our own sect, we call them trials when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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