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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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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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Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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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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A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.
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A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
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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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There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
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People can commend the weather without envy.
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Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
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I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
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Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
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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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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
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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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The fund of sensible discourse is limited that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
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A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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