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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Humor is wit and love.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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