Quote by Horace Walpole
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profound

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

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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. – Horace Walpole

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

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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – Horace Walpole

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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison

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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon

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There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela

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The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

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