“That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: “Reason, a thorn in Revelation’s side.”
Horace Walpole
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“René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress’s corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] opened on his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Traveling
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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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.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy” Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity isreckoned the standard principle.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his Judgment, but his Want of Judgment.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Choice
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“Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.”
Horace Walpole
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“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Tragedy
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“The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Prosperity
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“Life is a comedy for those who think… and a tragedy for those who feel.”
Horace Walpole
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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.”
Horace Walpole
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Ambition
