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Danh ngôn của William Shenstone (Sứ mệnh: 9)

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
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.
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.