William Shenstone Quotes

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

Truth, Liar, Making

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone

Jealousy, Fear, Envy

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone

Rich, Poor, Grows

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

Patriotism, Love, Time

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
William Shenstone

Great, Power, Anger

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, Often, Simplicity

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, Poor, She

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
William Shenstone

Making, Aim, Pleasure

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
William Shenstone

Men, Strength, While

A fool and his words are soon parted.
William Shenstone

Fool, Words, Soon

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
William Shenstone

Good, Mankind, Ill

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

Good, True, Poet

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

Money, Single, Friend

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William Shenstone

Knowledge, Books, Degree

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.
William Shenstone

Great, Alone, Through

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
William Shenstone

Poetry, Flattering, Diseases

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
William Shenstone

Thoughts, Second, Worst

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.
William Shenstone

Friendship, Time, Best

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
William Shenstone

Before, Easy, Eye

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.
William Shenstone

Poetry, Felt, Period

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

Old, Last, Show

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

May, Write, Read

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
William Shenstone

Envy, Nothing, Reason

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
William Shenstone

Lose, Virtues, Fragrance

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 13, 1714

Died: February 11, 1763

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