36 ordspråk av William Shenstone
William Shenstone
William Shenstone föddes den November 18th 1714 och dog den 11 February 1763 - Scottish poet
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 A fool and his words are soon parted. |
| A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. |
| A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind |
| A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind |
| A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich |
| Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. |
| Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true |
| Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. |
| For seldom shall she hear a tale
So sad, so tender, and so true. |
| 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. |
| Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
Emblems right meet of decency does yield. |
| His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. |
| 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. |
| I have found out a gift for my fair;
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. |
| I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. |
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