Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA person can’t help their birth.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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