It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYFollow your honest convictions and be strong.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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