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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
"Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far."
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
Explore more quotes by Horace Walpole
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
"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."
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