If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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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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