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All Quotes by author - William Shenstone

" A fool and his words are soon parted. "

" A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. "

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

" A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. "

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

" Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. "

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

" 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. "

" His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. "

" 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. "

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

" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "

" Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. "

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

" The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. "

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

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

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

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

" Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. "

" What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. "

" 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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