The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Sir, 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.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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