When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThen sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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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 you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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