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18 William Shenstone Quotes

William Shenstone shares clever, earthy musings on nature, human folly, and the quiet lessons of everyday life.

William Shenstone quotes

  1. Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

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  2. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield.

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  3. Whoe'er has traveled 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.

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  4. Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.

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  5. A fool and his words are soon parted.

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  6. Love is a pleasing but a various clime.

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  7. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

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  8. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.

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  9. My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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  10. For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true.

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  11. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield.

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  12. Pun-provoking thyme.

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  13. A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo.

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  14. Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

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  15. Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.

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  16. There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.

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  17. A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

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  18. Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical.

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