It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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