Quotes William Shenstone

A fool and his words are soon parted....

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and e...

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attr...

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

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmu...

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

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases ou...

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often dim...

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his kno...

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; ...

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy ou...

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as th...

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

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

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend,...

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

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts...

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native c...

The proper means of increasing the love we bear to our nativ...

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old au...

The world may be divided into people that read, people that ...

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day;...

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

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

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their...