Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWe can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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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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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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