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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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William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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What, indeed, does not that word cheerfulness imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition it means humility and charity it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Business first pleasure afterwards.
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
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At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
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[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.
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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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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
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What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
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When a mother, as fond mothers will vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
William Makepeace Thackeray
We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
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