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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAh me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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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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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