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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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When 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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Ah 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.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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