It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhat a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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?
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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