02c. 1757 ADThe world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
03c. 1757 ADA careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
04c. 1757 ADThe whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
05c. 1757 ADHad I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
06c. 1757 ADIn all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
07c. 1757 ADLife is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
08c. 1757 ADThe world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
09c. 1757 ADI sits with my toes in a brook; If anyone asks me for why, I hits him a rap with my crook— ’Tis sentiment kills me, says I.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
10c. 1757 ADThe world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
12c. 1757 ADHe was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
14c. 1757 ADWhen people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
16c. 1757 ADTo act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and the best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
17c. 1757 ADWe are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
18c. 1757 ADOld friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
19c. 1757 ADThe best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
22c. 1757 ADThis world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
23c. 1757 ADThere is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
24c. 1757 ADBy deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.Horace Walpole / quote ↗
