There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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!

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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There is a skeleton in every house.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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