Best Quotes by Horace Walpole (Top 10)
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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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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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
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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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He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
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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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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
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More Horace Walpole Quotes
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel " a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
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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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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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History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
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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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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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