I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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