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Famous William Shenstone Quotes
“May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.”
“Love can be founded upon Nature only.”
“Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.”
“Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.”
“There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.”
“Taste and good-nature are universally connected.”
“Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.”
“Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.”
“A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.”
“In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.”
“I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.”
“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.”
“What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.”
“A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.”
“So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.”
“Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?”
“Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.”