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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
William Shenstone
People
Day
Envy
Nothing
Reason
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
William Shenstone
People
May
World
A fool and his words are soon parted.
William Shenstone
Fool
Words
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
William Shenstone
Economy
Old
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
William Shenstone
Man
Mankind
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone
Man
Miser
Poor
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
Power
Control
Force
World
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
Country
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
William Shenstone
Pleasure
Unhappiness
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
William Shenstone
Men
Belief
Strength
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
Truth
Falsehood
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
William Shenstone
Poetry
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
William Shenstone
Money
Friend
Dependence
Insincerity
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
Poetry
Prose
Scripture
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
William Shenstone
Eye
Pagination
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