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