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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Heaven Look Love Myself Paradise Relationship See Thinking Yourself
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Active Believe Man Moral Myself
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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Moral Prosperity Vice World
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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Appearance Better Company
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Best Lose Love Relationship Win
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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Attach Better Endurance Fortune Life Love Man Smart Yourself
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Children God Heart Lips Mom Name
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Attack Dare Fortune Man Remember Secret Success World Yourself
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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