It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLet 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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