Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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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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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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