If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNever marry with the expectation of changing a person.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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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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