William Shenstone Quotes

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• A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

  William Shenstone

  Liars, Lying, Ends

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

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• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

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  Love, Country, Mean

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111

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• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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  Essence, Virtue, Fragrance

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.42

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• A fool and his words are soon parted.

  William Shenstone

  Witty, Fool, Foolishness

  'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Reserve' in 'Works in Verse and Prose' (1764) vol. 2

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• The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

  William Shenstone

  Wine, Power, White

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.124

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• Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Health, Perfect, Perfect Beauty

  Essays on Men and Manners 'On Taste'

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• Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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  Compliment, Indirect, Deference

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.254

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• Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

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  Pride, Men, Would Be

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• A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

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  Money, Men, Rich

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.156

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• 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."

  William Shenstone

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• 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.

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  Law, Break Through, Texture

  'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Politics' in 'Works' (1764) vol. 2.

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• Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

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  Writing, Long, House

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.170

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• Love can be founded upon Nature only.

  William Shenstone

  Nature

  William Shenstone (1768). “The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes. With Decorations”, p.147

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• 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.

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  Mean, Independence, Desire

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• I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

  William Shenstone

  Silly, Character, People

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.107

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• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Good Man, Purpose, Use

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.137

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• Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

  William Shenstone

  Past, Praise

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”

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• Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

  William Shenstone

  London, Expenses

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• Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

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  Together, Woods, Fool

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.231

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• 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

  Silence, Gains, Deference

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.52

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• Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

  William Shenstone

  Fashion, Taste, Expenses

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.248

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• Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

  William Shenstone

  War, Toil, Fool

  William Shenstone, “The Judgement Of Hercules”

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• The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

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  Eye, Easy

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.88

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• Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

  William Shenstone

  Flattery, Kind, Applause

  William Shenstone, Phillis Wheatley (1773). “The works, in verse and prose of William Shenstone, esq. ...”, p.218

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• 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

  Honesty, Pain, Knaves

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

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