When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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It 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.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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