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A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.


Horace Walpole

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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
HORACE WALPOLE By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
HORACE WALPOLE Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
HORACE WALPOLE Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
HORACE WALPOLE One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived...
HORACE WALPOLE Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjo...
HORACE WALPOLE Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to c...
HORACE WALPOLE The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
HORACE WALPOLE Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They ha...
HORACE WALPOLE It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink...
HORACE WALPOLE The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
HORACE WALPOLE Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
HORACE WALPOLE Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
HORACE WALPOLE The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydi...
HORACE WALPOLE I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don'...
HORACE WALPOLE Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
HORACE WALPOLE The world is a tradgedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
HORACE WALPOLE Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
HORACE WALPOLE Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
HORACE WALPOLE When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
HORACE WALPOLE Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be...
HORACE WALPOLE Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for har...
HORACE WALPOLE Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitatio...
HORACE WALPOLE I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, ...
HORACE WALPOLE In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avo...
HORACE WALPOLE The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucy...
HORACE WALPOLE Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event fir...
HORACE WALPOLE That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
HORACE WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
HORACE WALPOLE Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
HORACE WALPOLE When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something appro...
HORACE WALPOLE Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
HORACE WALPOLE Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
HORACE WALPOLE The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.
HORACE WALPOLE The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
HORACE WALPOLE The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
HORACE WALPOLE Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
HORACE WALPOLE I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue ...
HORACE WALPOLE How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from ...
HORACE WALPOLE It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
HORACE WALPOLE Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
HORACE WALPOLE In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last
HORACE WALPOLE A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome a monarch
HORACE WALPOLE Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They ha...
HORACE WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills ...
HORACE WALPOLE The best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one...
HORACE WALPOLE To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy...
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HORACE WALPOLE History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed
HORACE WALPOLE In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
HORACE WALPOLE There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends...
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HORACE WALPOLE I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of th...
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ROBERT WALPOLE Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
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ROBERT WALPOLE Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
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ANDREW WALPOLE Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.
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ANDREW WALPOLE Vaughan is going home. It's too early to say whether he is ruled out of the series altogether.
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ANDREW WALPOLE It is a recurrence of the knee problem he had in Pakistan. He felt stiffness in the right knee, and ...
ANDREW WALPOLE Vaughan is not playing this match as a precautionary measure.
ANDREW WALPOLE We are hoping he will play the first test. We'll assess the situation at the end of the tour match.
ANDREW WALPOLE Marcus is down with flu while Liam has a stomach ailment.
ANDREW WALPOLE We are hopeful he will be fit for the first Test.
ANDREW WALPOLE Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am ...
ROBERT WALPOLE Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE Don't play for safety-it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole dispo...
ROBERT WALPOLE I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
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ROBERT WALPOLE I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers...
ROBERT WALPOLE No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
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ANDREW WALPOLE Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have ...
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ROBERT WALPOLE He has been ruled out for personal reasons which cannot be revealed at the moment.
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HUGH WALPOLE Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
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HORACE Don't think, just do.
HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Wh...
HORACE A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
HORACE Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
HORACE One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
HORACE You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and do...
HORACE Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
HORACE A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE