Horace Walpole Quotes
30 Horace Walpole quotes:
"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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Vice Quotes
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"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
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"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
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"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
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"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
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"Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold."
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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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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
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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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"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
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"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
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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?"
Friends Or Friendship Quotes
Blessings Quotes
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"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
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"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
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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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"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
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"It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it."
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"I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing."
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"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
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"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."
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