Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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