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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYI believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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