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William Shenstone [1714-1763] English

Rank: 102
Poet

William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.

Poetry, Anger, Fear, Friendship, Intelligence, Jealousy, Money, Patriotism, Strength, Truth

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.	Truth	101
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.		102
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.	Patriotism	103
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.	Strength	104
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.	Money	105
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.	Friendship, Intelligence	106
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.	Fear, Jealousy	107
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.	Anger	108
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.		109
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.		110
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.		111
A fool and his words are soon parted.		112
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.		113
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.		114
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.		115
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.		116
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.	Poetry	117
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.		118
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.		119
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.		120
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.	Poetry	121
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.		122
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.		123
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.		124

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