William Shenstone Quotes

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

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

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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

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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.

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

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