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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Let 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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