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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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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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It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
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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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Patience is the panacea but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
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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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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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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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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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A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
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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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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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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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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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People can commend the weather without envy.
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A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.
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A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
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It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
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