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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
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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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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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Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.
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It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
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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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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
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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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Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.
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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.
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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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A fool and his words are soon parted.
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Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
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Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
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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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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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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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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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