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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNever lose a chance of saying a kind word.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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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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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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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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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Humor is wit and love.
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