Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Horace Walpole
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  2. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. - Vincent Van Gogh

  3. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. - Clive Barker

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More Quotes By Horace Walpole
  1. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

  2. In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

  3. He 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.

  4. Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

  5. When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

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