William Shenstone Quotes and its meanings

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William Shenstone has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about alone, anger, beauty, fear, friendship, hope, intelligence, jealousy, knowledge, patriotism, poetry, strength & truth. People always share Alone quotes, Anger quotes, beauty, fear, friendship, hope, intelligence, jealousy, knowledge & patriotism from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by William Shenstone?

Here are the top most famous quotes by William Shenstone.

• Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
• Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole 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.
• Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
• 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.
• 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.
• His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
• Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
• 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.