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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBravery never goes out of fashion.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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