Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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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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Best Heaven Love Purity Repeat Spirit
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Business Happiness Motivational
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Goodness Nature People World
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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Clear Fate Preparation Way Willing
We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Creature Eat Food Kindness World
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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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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Best Choice Doubt Fools Love Wisdom
The best of women are hypocrites.
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Best Hypocrisy Woman
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Goal Horizon Live Success Yourself
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Achievement Excellence Happiness Praise
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
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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Angry Believe Consistent Greatness Hate Lying Order
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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Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Destiny Eternity Life Peace Soul Training
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Dare Inspirational Oppression World Yourself
The 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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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Change Heart Life Lover Man Oneself Preparation Quick Sad Woman
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Death Exception Happiness Sorry
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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Mindset Order Remember Wrong
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
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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Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Big Fools Love Small
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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