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“When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Romantic #Thinking #Paradise
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“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Family #Mothers Day #God
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“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Love #Life #Relationship
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“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Happiness #Laughter #Inspiration
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“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Appreciation #Excellence #Next
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“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Inspirational #Inspiring #Kindness
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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?”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Laughter #Book #Expression
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“Bravery never goes out of fashion.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Fashion #Courage #Memorial Day
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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
#Life #Mirrors #Return
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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
#Positive #Attitude #Men
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“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Happiness #Educational #Humor
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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
#Inspirational #Success #Goal
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“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Writing #Two #Familiar
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“...the greatest tyrants over women are women.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Tyrants
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“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Inspiring #Lying #Writing
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“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Party #Two #Cynical
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“People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Conceited #Self #Laughing
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“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Vanity
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“If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Character #Men #Relative
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“Follow your honest convictions and be strong.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Inspirational #Being Strong #Stay Strong
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“When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Flower #Journey #Hiking
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“I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Anniversary #Men #Pity
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“I would rather make my name than inherit it.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Inspirational #Attitude #Names
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“Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Death #Im Sorry #Dying
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“People hate as they love, unreasonably.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Love #Hate #People
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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.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Children #Play #Desire
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“Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Littles #Stores #Allowance
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“The world is good natured to people who are good natured.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Positive #People #World
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“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Revenge #Wicked #May
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“Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.”
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
#Life #Years #Dinner
