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William Shenstone was an English poet, born on November 18, 1714, and died on February 11, 1763. His poetry is known for its fresh and natural style and its depiction of rural life.

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Famous William Shenstone Quotes

“Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.”

Wells May Mean Persons Desire Found Limits Absolutes Independence Fortune Abundance Contracts

Author:William Shenstone

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

People Thinking World Writing May Divided Foxes Hunters

Author:William Shenstone

“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.”

Ifs May Use Purpose Management Good Man Void Coins Sterling

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."”

Knows Men World Should Believe May Said Lying Impossible Honest Deceit One Man Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:William Shenstone

“A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.”

Ifs Men May Littles Happens Pieces Genius Abuse Wit Borders Remarkable Obliged

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.”

May Mother Invention

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“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.”

Humans May Wealth Virtue Human Nature Crowds Gentleman Sufficient Acquire Gentility

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.”

May Use Learning Void Coins

Book:The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes. With Decorations

Source: The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes. With Decorations

“May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.”

Heart May Economy Fortune Superiors Contentment Suitable

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“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.”

May Littles Persons Enemy Rich Dresses Add Deference

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.”

Source: Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone

“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.”

May Persons Choices Style Color Increase Regard Dresses Attending Misled

Author: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.”

Thinking Life May Has Beens Stills Found Stage Rounds Welcome Dull Sigh Inns

Author:William Shenstone