Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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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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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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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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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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