William Shenstone Quotes
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. - William Shenstone
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
- William Shenstone
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
- William Shenstone
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire
From flattery, cards, and dice, and din:
Nor art thou found in mansions higher
Than the low cot, or humble inn. - William Shenstone
From flattery, cards, and dice, and din:
Nor art thou found in mansions higher
Than the low cot, or humble inn. - William Shenstone
Thy verses are eternal, O my friend, For he who reads them, reads them to no end.
- William Shenstone
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
- William Shenstone
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
- William Shenstone
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
- William Shenstone
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
- William Shenstone
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
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