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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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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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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.
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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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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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