William Shenstone Quotes

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

William Shenstone

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

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• People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

  

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

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• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

  

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• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

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• Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.

  

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• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

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• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

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  • Enemy

• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  

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• No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

  

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• It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

  

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• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  

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• I am not an enemy of Adventism.

  

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• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

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• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

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• One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

  

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• Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

  

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• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  

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  • Rich

• I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

  

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• Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

  

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• It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

  

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  • Best
  • Uncle

• A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Enemy
  • Rich
  • Dresses