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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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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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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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Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
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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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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
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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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Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
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Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
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Love can be founded upon Nature only.
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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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We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
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Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.
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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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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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Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
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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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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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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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