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William Shenstone
William Shenstone
English Poet
Born: Nov 18, 1714
Died: Feb 11, 1763
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Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. William Shenstone
Truth Liar Like Making Falsehood Itself Begins Ends Appear
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. William Shenstone
People World Think Divided Write Read May
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. William Shenstone
Aim Pleasure Leads Making Chief Unhappiness
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 Man Superior Parasites Hut Most She Well His Upright Flatterer Poor Palace
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. William Shenstone
Love Time Patriotism Country Increasing Our Some Proper Bear Foreign Native Means Reside
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. William Shenstone
Poetry Consumption Most Diseases Flattering
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. William Shenstone
Knowledge World Degree Books Diminished Some Had His
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
Musical Those Poetry Prose Most Period Felt Frequently Lines Texts Quoted Which Scripture Even
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
You Simplicity Beauty Increase Other Diminish Latter Variety Most Opposite Very Often Former Grandeur
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. William Shenstone
Strength You Men Judicious While Grounds Showing Displaying Belief Zealous Ever
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. William Shenstone
Day People Envy Nothing Fine Fine Day More Without Commend Than Reason Universally

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