A person can’t help their birth.
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.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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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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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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