It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLove 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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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