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• Love is a pleasing but a various clime.

  William Shenstone

  Love Is, Various

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”, p.103

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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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• Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

  William Shenstone

  Hands, Stupidity, Assurance

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.66

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• Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

  William Shenstone

  Age, Magnificence, Admiration

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.165

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

  William Shenstone

  Animal, Vines, Pruning

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.127

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

  William Shenstone

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

  William Shenstone

  Thankfulness, Thanks

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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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• I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

  William Shenstone

  Years, People, Causes

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• Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

  William Shenstone

  Pain, Giving, Prejudice

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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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• 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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• 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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• Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

  William Shenstone

  Hero, Eye, Prize

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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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