Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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