Quote #16

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

More from William Shenstone

  1. Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.
  2. A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
  3. Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
  4. Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical.
  5. A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo.
  6. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield.
  7. For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true.
  8. My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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