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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
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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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Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.
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Sure, love vincit omnia is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.
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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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Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.
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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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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
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It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion and so let all young persons take their choice.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
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