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Anything but history, for history must be false. - [History] Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. - [Music] History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. - [History] I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. - see Cunningham's "Walpole" [Sensibility] In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. - [Science] Life is a comedy. - in a letter to Sir Horace Mann, Dec. 31, 1769 [Life] Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. - [Mystery] Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. - [People] Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them! - [Man] Old friends are the great blessings of one's latter years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have memory of the same events, and have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow old friends? My age forbids that. Still less can they grow companions. Is it friendship to explain half one says? One must relate the history of one's memory and ideas; and what is that to the young but old stories? - [Friends] The gratitude of place expectants is a lively sense of future favours. - ascribed to, by Hazlitt "Wit and Humour" [Politics] The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. - [Life] This world is a comedy, not Life. - in a letter to Sir Horace Mann, Mar. 5, 1772 [Life] To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. - [Common Sense] Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged. - [Books] They dropped into the yolk of an egg the milk that flows from the leaf of a young fig-tree, with which, instead of water, gum or gumdragant, they mixed their last layer of colours. - Anecdotes of Painting (vol. I, ch. II) [Painting] Our supreme governors, the mob. - Letter to Horace Mann [Public] 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, in time a Vergil 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. - Letter to Horace Mann [Ruin] A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. - Letter to Sir Horace Mann [Nonsense : Songs] The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. - Letter to Sir Horace Mann [World] Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. - Letter to Thomas Walpole [Prophecy (Prophesy)] In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui. - To the Rev. William Mason [Scotland]
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