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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."
"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"
"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."
"I never seemed to learn from joy, I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness."
"When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions."
"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."
"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."
Explore more quotes by Horace Walpole
"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
"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."
"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 the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
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