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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.
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Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
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Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
Emblem right meet of decency does yield.
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Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome, at an inn.
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Prudent men should lock up their motives, giving only their intimates a key.
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A poet hurts himself by writing prose; as a racehorse hurts his motions by condescending to draw in a team.
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So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.
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A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
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A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.
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Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.
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My banks they are furnish'd with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
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The charm dissolves; th' aerial music's past;
The banquet ceases, and the vision flies.
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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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There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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I have found out a gift for my fair;
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
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I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
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Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
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When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
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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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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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Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
William Shenstone
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Born:
November 18, 1714
Died:
February 11, 1763
(aged 48)
Bio:
William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
Known for:
Essays On Men And Manners
The Poetical Works of William Shenstone
Moral Pieces
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