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Hugh Walpole Quotes


Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist.
(1884 - 1941)


Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Happiness comes from within a man, from some curious adjustment to life.
[Acceptance]

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
[Science]

It isn't life that matters! It's the courage you bring to it.
[Courage]

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
[Happiness]

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
[Companionship]