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“His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.”

William Shenstone · Knowledge

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William Shenstone

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Patriotism

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.

Poetry

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Fear

William Shenstone

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.

Beauty