Quote #17
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
More from William Shenstone
- There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.
- Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical.
- Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.
- Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
- A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo.
- Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield.
- For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true.
- My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.