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Quote by William Shenstone
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish

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

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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. – William Shenstone

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Anger
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William Shenstone
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor mans hut, as well as the palace of his superior. – William Shenstone

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Hope
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William Shenstone
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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

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Poetry
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I dont have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop. – Jenifer Lewis

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My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel. – Sharon Tate

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Beauty

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love. – Heather Wilson

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I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and thats just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that. – Shaun White

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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one… – William Cowper

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