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• It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

  William Shenstone

  Passion, Ambition, Play

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.99

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• A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Garden, Design

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.59

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• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Hope, Men, Palaces

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.135

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• Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Distance, Degrees, Offensive

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.65

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• Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

  William Shenstone

  Want, Fool, Honest

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.109

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• The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

  William Shenstone

  Aunt, Lasts, Economy

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• My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

  William Shenstone

  Sleep, Bees, Invites

  William Shenstone (1804). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. With the Life of the Author and a Description of the Leasowes. [Edited by R. Dodsley.]”, p.80

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• Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

  William Shenstone

  Second Thoughts, Worst

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.166

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• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Beauty, Opposites, Simplicity

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.150

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• Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

  William Shenstone

  Increase, Efficacy, Insincerity

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.155

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• Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

  William Shenstone

  Poet, Very Good, Critics

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• It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

  William Shenstone

  Money, Littles, Infinite

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• A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

  William Shenstone

  Life, Success, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.143

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• What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

  William Shenstone

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• People can commend the weather without envy.

  William Shenstone

  Weather, People, Envy

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• Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

  William Shenstone

  Judgment, Pupils, Wit

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.159

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• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Abuse, Borders

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.98

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• The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

  William Shenstone

  Ice, People, Obscurity

  William Shenstone (1927). “Men & Manners”

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• It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, Men, Odds

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.98

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• A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

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  Income, Extravagance, Cascade

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.111

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• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Gentleman, Crowds, May

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.38

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• The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

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  Enemy, Armor, Addresses

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.177

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• Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

  William Shenstone

  Simple, Mind, Relax

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.157

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• A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.

  William Shenstone

  Real, Sprung Up, Armor

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.36

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• The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

  William Shenstone

  Infinite, Jest, Sensible

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.176

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