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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNever lose a chance of saying a kind word.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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