When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOne 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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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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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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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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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Humor is wit and love.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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