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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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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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