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• Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

  William Shenstone

  Prudent, Modesty, Be Careful

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

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• Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

  William Shenstone

  Heart, Men, Garden

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.43

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• The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

  William Shenstone

  Honesty, Character, Men

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• I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

  William Shenstone

  Names, I Am Thankful, Obnoxious

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.101

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• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

  William Shenstone

  Essence, Bears, Virtue

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

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• When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

  William Shenstone

  Honesty, Book, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.15

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

  William Shenstone

  Heart, Contentment, May

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.101

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• There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

  William Shenstone

  Song, Certain, Seems

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.179

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• Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Musical, Style

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.116

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• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Color, Choices, Style

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• The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

  William Shenstone

  Sympathy, Coffee, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.43

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• It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

  William Shenstone

  Taste, Wit, Good Nature

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.183

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• Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

  William Shenstone

  Taste, Good Nature, Connected

  William Shenstone (1794). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.96

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• Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

  William Shenstone

  Thankfulness, Thanks

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• Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

  William Shenstone

  Character, Action, Importance

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.122

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• Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

  William Shenstone

  Fashion, Fancy, Able

  William Shenstone (1765). “The works in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, esq: in two volumes”, p.196

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• Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

  William Shenstone

  Clothes, Shining, Dresses

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• Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Quality, Titles

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.174

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• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Enemy, Dresses, Add

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.109

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• The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

  William Shenstone

  Imagination, Perfection, Tree

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.137

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• In every village marked with little spire,
  Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

  William Shenstone

  Tree, Village, Littles

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

  William Shenstone

  Learning, Use, Coins

  William Shenstone (1768). “The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes. With Decorations”, p.237

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• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

  William Shenstone

  Goodbye, Farewell, Return

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

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• Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

  William Shenstone

  Humility, Haughtiness, Assuming

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.210

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• Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

  William Shenstone

  Flattery, Imagine, Enough

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.142

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