Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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