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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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• 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.

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  Flattery, Kind, Applause

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

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• However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

  William Shenstone

  Beautiful, Distance, Eye

  William Shenstone (1775). “The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition”, p.121

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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.

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  Honesty, Pain, Knaves

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

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

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  Jealousy, Envy, Envious

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.137

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• Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

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  Poetry, Disease, Flattering

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.18

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• There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

  William Shenstone

  Country, Quality, Court

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.281

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• 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

  Best Friend, Answers, Letters

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• Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

  William Shenstone

  Mother, May, Invention

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.129

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

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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

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• 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.

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  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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

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  Men, Zealous, Belief

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.148

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• Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

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  Patience, Doe, Panacea

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.153

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• 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.

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  Musical, Lines, Scripture

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• What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

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  Freedom, People, Broken

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.213

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• When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

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  Trials, Matter, Way

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• A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

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  Friendship, Passion, Tree

  William Shenstone (1765). “Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.142

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• Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

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  Reason, Awe, Approach

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.148

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• A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

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  Inanimate Objects, Objects, Oaks

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.58

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

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  Infinite, Jest, Sensible

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

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• Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

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  Perfect, Assurance

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.152

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• In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

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  Epic, Opportunity, Garden

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.86

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• Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

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  Character, Giving, Almighty

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.152

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• I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

  William Shenstone

  Learning, Oil, Midnight

  William Shenstone, “Elegy Xi. He Complains How Soon The Pleasing Novelty Of Life Is Over”

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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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