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William Shenstone - From the Beauty category:
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Belief category:
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Books category:
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Critics category:
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Fame category:
Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, / Desirous still, still impotent to rise. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Friendship category:
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)
William Shenstone - From the Goodness category:
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Happiness category:
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Health category:
Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Hope category:
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)
William Shenstone - From the Jealousy category:
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Money category:
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Money category:
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Music category:
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. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Opposites category:
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. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Patriotism category:
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Poetry category:
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Power category:
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Rules category:
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Seeing category:
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Thought category:
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. (William Shenstone)
William Shenstone - From the Truth category:
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. (William Shenstone)
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