William Shenstone Quotes

English - Poet | November 18, 1714 - February 11, 1763

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

William Shenstone

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

William Shenstone

ManRichPoorGrowsMiserSeeming

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

StrengthMenYouBeliefEverWhile

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

William Shenstone

GoodManMankindQualitiesHeWhich

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

William Shenstone

OldEconomyAuntLeaveSomethingUs

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

William Shenstone

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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

William Shenstone

PeopleWorldThinkWriteDivided

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

William Shenstone

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

William Shenstone

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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

HopeManPoorShePalaceSuperior

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

PoetryLinesEvenMostProseThose

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

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