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Explore more quotes by William Shenstone

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

"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."

"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."

"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."

"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."

"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."

"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."

"Knowledge' may be there but 'correctness' is required along with it. If you have 'knowledge' but don't have the 'correctness'; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!"

"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."

"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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