You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA person can’t help their birth.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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