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12 Quotes for 'Horace Walpole' in the Database.

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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
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
Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Topic: Credit
Source: None
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Topic: Humor
Source: None
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Topic: Humor
Source: None
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Topic: Mystery
Source: None
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
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
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
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
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"
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Topic: Tragedy
Source: None

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