A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWe know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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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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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Humor is wit and love.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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