Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYSir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Humor is wit and love.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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