Horace Walpole/later Life - 1768%e2%80%931788

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    “Love sits enthroned in Clara’s eyes,
    The Graces play her lips around,
    And in her cheeks the tendrest dyes
    Of lilly mixed with rose are found.
    Where charms so irresistless throng
    What mortal heart can try resistance?
    But ah! her nose is two feet long,
    And bids our passions keep their distance.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff:
    Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist—only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)