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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
Novelist
Politician
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London
England
Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
Horace Walpole
Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
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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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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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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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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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Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
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Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
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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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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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