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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Change Expectation Marriage Person
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Argument Body Kindness Proud
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Honesty Strong Yourself
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
There is a skeleton in every house.
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Bone Home
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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Fortune God Greatness Man Quality Success
To 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.
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Beautiful Demand Enough Herself Rose Sing Woman
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Different Eyes Money Value
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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Clear Fate Preparation Way Willing
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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See Vanity
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Active Believe Man Moral Myself
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Believe Life Mortal Percentage
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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Best Heaven Love Purity Repeat Spirit
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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Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Enemy Fools Himself See
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself

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