All Horace Walpole Quotes
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
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I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
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