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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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