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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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 moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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