Pray God, keep us simple.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIn the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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