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 THACKERAYPray God, keep us simple.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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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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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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