William Shenstone

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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

alone

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

William Shenstone

anger

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

beauty

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

fear

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

friendship

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

hope

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

intelligence

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

jealousy

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

William Shenstone

knowledge

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

William Shenstone

patriotism

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