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 THACKERAYNever lose a chance of saying a kind word.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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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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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Humor is wit and love.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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