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William Shenstone Quotes: "The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.




William Shenstone Quotes: "Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments."

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.



William Shenstone Quotes: "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."

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.




William Shenstone Quotes: "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."

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.



William Shenstone Quotes: "A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape."

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed."

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.




William Shenstone Quotes: "The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character."

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.



William Shenstone Quotes: "The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.



William Shenstone Quotes: "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."

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.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.



William Shenstone Quotes: "A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.




William Shenstone Quotes: "Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable."

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.



William Shenstone Quotes: "A fool and his words are soon parted."

A fool and his words are soon parted.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Theirs is the present who can praise the past."

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.



William Shenstone Quotes: "What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim."

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden."

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.



William Shenstone Quotes: "The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar."

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.



William Shenstone Quotes: "The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?"

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?



William Shenstone Quotes: "Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.



William Shenstone Quotes: "A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity."

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.



William Shenstone Quotes: "So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return."

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.



William Shenstone Quotes: "A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind."

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor."

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.



William Shenstone Quotes: "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."

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.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house."

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty."

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Love can be founded upon Nature only."

Love can be founded upon Nature only.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness."

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.



William Shenstone Quotes: "A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say."

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places."

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion."

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.



William Shenstone Quotes: "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."

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.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him."

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.



William Shenstone Quotes: "It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected."

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Thanks, oftenest obtrusive."

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness."

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.



William Shenstone Quotes: "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."

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.



William Shenstone Quotes: "There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.



William Shenstone Quotes: "The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Nothing is certain in London but expense."

Nothing is certain in London but expense.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.



William Shenstone Quotes: "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."

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.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger."

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.



William Shenstone Quotes: "Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born."

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.