When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLove seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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