Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhat a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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