"Oh that I were seated as high as……" — Horace Walpole
"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
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55 Quotes by Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole has 55 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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,…
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to…
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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…
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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is…
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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…
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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