Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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.
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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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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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