Zitate von Horace Walpole
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Was bedeutet Ruhm für die Menschen, verglichen mit ihrem Glück?
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Premierminister, Schriftsteller (England, 1717 - 1797).
Horace Walpole · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Horace Walpole wäre heute 306 Jahre, 7 Monate, 4 Tage oder 111.981 Tage alt.
Geboren am 24.09.1717 in London
Gestorben am 02.03.1797 in London
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Weitere 52 Zitate von Horace Walpole
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History makes one shudder and laugh by turns.
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I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
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I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
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In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
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It is charming to totter into vogue.
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It is the story of a mountebank and his zany.
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It was easier to conquer it [the East] than to know what to do with it.
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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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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One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
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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 that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.
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Our supreme governors, the mob.
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Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
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Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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Tell me, ye divines, which is the most virtuous man, he who begets twenty bastards, or he who sacrifices an hundred thousand lives?
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That hyena in petticoats, Mrs Wollstonecraft.
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The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal.
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The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.
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The keenness of his sabre was blunted by the difficulty with which he drew it from the scabbard; I mean, the hesitation and ungracefulness of his delivery took off from the force of his arguments.
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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
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