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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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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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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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In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.
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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 are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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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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Nothing is certain in London but expense.
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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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It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?
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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
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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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Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
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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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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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