Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMoney has only a different value in the eyes of each.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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