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William Shenstone Quotes
Page 2 of 2William Shenstone
November 13, 1714 - February 11, 1763
Nationality: English
Category: Poet
Subcategory: English Poet
|  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. | | 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. | | 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. | | Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. |
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