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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
- William Shenstone
#Best
#Friendship
#Intelligence
#Time
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
- William Shenstone
#Dependence
#Every
#Friend
#Money
#Single
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
- William Shenstone
#Second
#Thoughts
#Very
#Worst
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
- William Shenstone
#Aim
#Making
#Pleasure
#Unhappiness
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
- William Shenstone
#Consumption
#Diseases
#Most
#Poetry
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
- William Shenstone
#Before
#Easy
#Eye
#Must
#Pleased
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
- William Shenstone
#Exposed
#Fragrance
#Like
#Lose
#Virtues
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
#Control
#Great
#Power
#World
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
- William Shenstone
#Beauty
#Opposite
#Simplicity
#Variety
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
- William Shenstone
#Day
#Envy
#Nothing
#People
#Reason
A fool and his words are soon parted.
- William Shenstone
#Fool
#His
#Parted
#Soon
#Words
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
- William Shenstone
#Hope
#Man
#Palace
#Poor
#She
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
- William Shenstone
#Extravagant
#Man
#Miser
#Poor
#Rich
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
- William Shenstone
#Bear
#Country
#Love
#Patriotism
#Time
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
- William Shenstone
#Belief
#Ever
#Men
#Strength
#While
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
- William Shenstone
#Begins
#Falsehood
#Liar
#Like
#Truth
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
- William Shenstone
#Envy
#Fear
#Jealousy
#Our
#Superiority
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