Tag: Horace Walpole

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Truth

Horace Walpole | truth

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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Horace Walpole | respect

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

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poetry

Horace Walpole | poetry

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

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poetry

Horace Walpole | poetry

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

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Nature

Horace Walpole | nature

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

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Life

Horace Walpole | life

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

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Horace Walpole | imagination

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.

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humor

Horace Walpole | humor

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.

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art

Quote from Horace Walpole | art

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age

Quote from Horace Walpole | age

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