I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity is often the unseen spur.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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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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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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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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