We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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