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One Quotes by Horace Walpole
- I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of…
- How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called…
- 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…
- Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have…
- One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns…
- 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;…
- I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment…
- The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
- I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
- He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had…
- To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take…
- Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed he is a…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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