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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
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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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.
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We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
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If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
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For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.
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You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob as are you who boast of your wealth.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
William Makepeace Thackeray
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
William Makepeace Thackeray
We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Thackeray
He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
William Makepeace Thackeray
