30 ordspråk av Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole föddes den 24 september 1717 och dog den 2 marts 1797 - brittisk politiker och författare.
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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

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.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

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 the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Tacksamhet är ett vaket sinne för framtida ynnestbevis.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

Takknemlighet er en våken sans for fremtidige gunstbevisninger.

Tacksamhet är en vaken känsla för framtida förmåner.

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