We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYSuccessful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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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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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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