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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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