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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Death Exception Happiness Sorry
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Agreement Easy Existence Light Offend Wickedness
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Enemy Fools Himself See
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Heaven Look Love Myself Paradise Relationship See Thinking Yourself
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
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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Moral Prosperity Vice World
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Honesty Strong Yourself
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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Angry Believe Consistent Greatness Hate Lying Order
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
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
A person can’t help their birth.
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Born Fate Help One Liner Person
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Dare Inspirational Oppression World Yourself
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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Admire Greatness Happiness Learning Life Right Spirit Worship
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Change Expectation Marriage Person
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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Enjoyment Food Gratitude Happiness Life Proper Respect Time Yourself
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Choice Economics Friendship Goodness Wisdom
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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See Vanity
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Appearance Happiness Heart Joy
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Achievement Excellence Happiness Praise
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Children God Heart Lips Mom Name
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Goodness Intellectual Live Man Social
Frequent the company of your betters.
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Appearance Better Company
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman

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