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 THACKERAYWhat a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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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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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