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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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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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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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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