William Shenstone Quotes about Life

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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

Life, Thinking, Dull

'Written at an Inn at Henley' (1758).

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

Life, Success, Men

William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.143