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A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Love can be founded upon Nature only.
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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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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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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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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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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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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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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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Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.
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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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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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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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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.
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It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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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 every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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