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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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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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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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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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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
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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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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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A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
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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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Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
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Nothing is certain in London but expense.
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A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
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Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
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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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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
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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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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
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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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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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