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William Shenstone

William Shenstone

William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.

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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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.
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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.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
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