A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYSir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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 thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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