William Shenstone Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Shenstone
William Shenstone Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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.
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.
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.
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
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.
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.
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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.
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.
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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.
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.
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.