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 THACKERAYVanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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