Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPray God, keep us simple.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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