If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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?
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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