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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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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – 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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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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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. – Lewis Mumford

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Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. – Bryant McGill

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