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Horace Walpole has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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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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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in…
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
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At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the…
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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…
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature…
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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we…
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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…
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,…
— William Shakespeare
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Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling,…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
— William Shakespeare
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By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.
— Opal Whiteley
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
— Wallace Stegner
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The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a…
— James Lane Allen
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Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
— Gautama Buddha
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To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the…
— Herbert Hoover
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