Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt 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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Then 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.”
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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