William Shenstone Quote

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.


The Works, in Verse and Prose (ed. 1764)


Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.