Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. William Shenstone More Quotes by William Shenstone More Quotes From William Shenstone A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape. William Shenstone design garden art Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. William Shenstone flattering disease poetry It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play? William Shenstone passion ambition play The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased. William Shenstone eye easy 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 palaces hope men Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. William Shenstone flattery imagine enough What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense. William Shenstone freedom broken people Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness. William Shenstone haughtiness assuming humility It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular. William Shenstone odds men mean 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 world moving Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places. William Shenstone pride would-be men The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive. William Shenstone littles mean people Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. William Shenstone envious envy jealousy His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. William Shenstone books some world knowledge
