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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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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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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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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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A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
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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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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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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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Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
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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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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
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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 large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
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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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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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I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
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