Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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