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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
— William Shenstone
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
— William Shenstone
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
— William Shenstone
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
— William Shenstone
In every village marked with little spire,Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. — William Shenstone
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
— William Shenstone
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
— William Shenstone
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
— William Shenstone
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
— William Shenstone
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
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
— William Shenstone
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
In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.
— William Shenstone
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
— William Shenstone
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
— William Shenstone
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
— William Shenstone
Nothing is certain in London but expense.
— William Shenstone
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
— William Shenstone
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
— William Shenstone
Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
— William Shenstone
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
— William Shenstone
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
— William Shenstone
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
— William Shenstone
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
— William Shenstone
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
— William Shenstone
Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.
— William Shenstone
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
— William Shenstone
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
— William Shenstone
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
— William Shenstone
People can commend the weather without envy.
— William Shenstone
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
— William Shenstone
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
— William Shenstone
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
— William Shenstone
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
— William Shenstone
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
— William Shenstone
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
— William Shenstone
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
— William Shenstone
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
— William Shenstone
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
— William Shenstone
Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
— William Shenstone
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
Love can be founded upon Nature only.
— William Shenstone
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
— William Shenstone
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
— William Shenstone
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
— William Shenstone
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
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
— William Shenstone
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
— William Shenstone
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
— William Shenstone
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
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
— William Shenstone
Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
— William Shenstone
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.
— William Shenstone
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
— William Shenstone
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
— William Shenstone
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
— William Shenstone
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
— William Shenstone
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
— William Shenstone
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
— William Shenstone
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
— William Shenstone
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
— William Shenstone
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
— William Shenstone
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
