People hate as they love, unreasonably.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYYou can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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