Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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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.William Shenstone
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
William Shenstone
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.
William Shenstone
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
William Shenstone
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.
William Shenstone
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
William Shenstone
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