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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Decision Eyes Greatness Hands Life Lips Moments Talk World
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Dinner Eat Goodness Health Man Mindset Reading
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Admire Greatness Happiness Learning Life Right Spirit Worship
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Goal Horizon Live Success Yourself
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Fate Greatness Small Vanity Way Weakness Wisdom
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Death Exception Happiness Sorry
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
Pray God, keep us simple.
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God Prayer Simplicity
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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