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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
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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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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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Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
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Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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Patience is the panacea but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
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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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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
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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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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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To one who said, I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world, another replied, It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself.
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I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
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Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.
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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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