More quotes by William Shenstone
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
Oft has good-nature been the fool's defence,
And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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