When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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