Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
Quotes from Essays on Men and Manners — William Shenstone
1714–1763 England
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Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Love can be founded upon nature only; or the appearance of it.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
It is a miserable thing to love where one hates; and yet it is not inconsistent.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Prudent men should lock up their motives, giving only their intimates a key.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
A large, branching, aged oak, is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Second thoughts are oftentimes the very worst of all thoughts.
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Essays on Men and Manners (1764)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shenstone (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.