People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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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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.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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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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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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 love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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