Pray God, keep us simple.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen 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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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