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Horace Walpole Inspirational Quotes (70)

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Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.
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A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.
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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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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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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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I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
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How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.
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I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
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An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!
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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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Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.
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I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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