It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIf there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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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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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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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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