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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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