The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIn the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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