Horace Walpole Quotes

• La vida es una comedia para los que piensan y una tragedia para los que sienten.

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  Life, Wisdom, Atheist

  Horace Walpole (1929). “The castle of Otranto”

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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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  Life, Learning, Secret

  "The Christian Leader", Vol. 37, Issue 7, February 17, 1934.

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• Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

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  Funny, Life, Ghouls

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• The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

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  Doe, Modern, Curse

  Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.267

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• Cuando las personas no escardan sus propias mentes, son propensas a ser invadidas por ortigas.

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  Weed, Garden, People

  Letter to Lady Ailesbury, 10 July 1779, in 'Letters'

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• Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

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  Mourning, Farce, Life Is

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1858). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.452

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• To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

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  Wisdom, Common Sense, Moments

  Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”

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• Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

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  Wise, Half, Done

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• Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

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  Foolish, Reader

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford”, p.494

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• In science, mistakes always precede the truth

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  Confidence, Mistake

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• We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

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  Fear, Pain, Loneliness

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• The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

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  Wise, Events, Firsts

  Letter to Thos. Walpole, 19 February 1785, in 'Letters'

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• Este mundo es una comedia para los que piensan, una tragedia para los que sienten.

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  Love, Failure, Thinking

  Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776

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• The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

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  Respect, Philosophy, World

  Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”

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• Los hombres son a menudo capaces de cosas mayores de las que realizan - Se les envía al mundo con letras de crédito, y rara vez las utilizan en toda su extensión.

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  Future, Greatness, Men

  Horace Walpole, George Vertue (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.371

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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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  Happiness, Believe, Earth

  Horace Walpole (1861). “The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford”, p.405

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• Evito hablar ante los jóvenes de la época como bailaría ante ellos: porque si la lengua de uno no se mueve al paso del día, y piensa agradar con sus viejas gracias, sólo es objeto de burla.

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  Moving, Thinking, Talking

  Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.198

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• History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

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  Romance, Political

  Horace Walpole (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.368

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• Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

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  Silly, Discovery, Serendipity

  Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.

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• I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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  Thinking, Tragedy, World

  Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 31, 1769.

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• Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

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  School, Boys, Power

  Letter to Montagu, 6 May 1736, in 'Letters'

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• El misterio es la sabiduría de los cabezas huecas.

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  Mystery, Blockheads

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.371

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• Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

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  People, Giving, Weakness

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• Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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  Truth, Lying, Justice

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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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  Vanity, Self, Impossible

  Horace Walpole (1861). “The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford”, p.2

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