William Shenstone's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Poet
Nation: English
Biography of William Shenstone
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Tags: Liar, Making, TruthJealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
Tags: Envy, Fear, JealousyA miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Tags: Grows, Poor, RichThe proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Tags: Love, Patriotism, TimeAnger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Tags: Anger, Great, PowerEvery single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
Tags: Friend, Money, SingleHope 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.
Tags: Hope, Poor, SheThe world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
Tags: May, Read, WriteZealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Tags: Men, Strength, WhileGrandeur 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.
Tags: Beauty, Often, SimplicityThe 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.
Tags: Best, Friendship, TimeA man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
Tags: Good, Ill, MankindHis knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Tags: Books, Degree, KnowledgePoetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
Tags: Diseases, Flattering, PoetryThe regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
Tags: Last, Old, ShowThere is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
Tags: Envy, Fine, ReasonLaws 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.
Tags: Alone, Found, Great