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12 Quotes for 'Horace Walpole' in the Database.
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Horace Walpole Quotes
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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.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Ambition
Source: None
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Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Topic: Credit
Source: None
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That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Topic: Humor
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Topic: Humor
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Topic: Mystery
Source: None
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A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does
not mis-become a monarch.
Topic: Nonsense
Source: Letter to Sir Horace Mann
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Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest
prophets make sure of the event first.
Topic: Prophecy (Prophesy)
Source: Letter to Thomas Walpole
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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, in time a Vergil at Mexico, and a Newton at
Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit
England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like
the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
Topic: Ruin
Source: Letter to Horace Mann
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In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit
of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been
consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui.
Topic: Scotland
Source: To the Rev. William Mason
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I sit with my toes in a brook,
And if any one axes forwhy?
I hits them a rap with my crook,
For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.
Topic: Sensibility
Source: see Cunningham's "Walpole"
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The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Topic: Tragedy
Source: None
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