| 10 Famous Quotes by William Shenstone
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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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“Oft has good nature been the fool's defence,
And honest meaning gilded want of sense.”
Sense Quotes Source: Ode to a Lady
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“Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
Emblem right meet of decency does yield.”
Apparel Quotes Source: The Schoolmistress (st. 6)
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“Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough,
And gay with gilded wings,
Perchance the patron of his vow,
Some artless linnet sings.”
Linnets Quotes Source: Valentine's Day
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“Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome, at an inn.”
Inns Quotes Source: Written at an Inn at Henley
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“For seldom shall she hear a tale
So said, so tender, yet so true.”
Story telling Quotes Source: Jemmy Dawson (st. 20)
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“Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.”
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“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”
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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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“A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.”
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William Shenstone Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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