William Shenstone

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August 9, 2020

Name: William Shenstone
Born: 11/18/1714
Died: 02/11/1763 (48 years old)
Occupation: Poet, landscape gardener

William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.

School: Pembroke College, Oxford

Birth Place: Leasowes, Halesowen

Source: Wikipedia

William Shenstone quotes :

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

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
William Shenstone

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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.
William Shenstone

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
William Shenstone