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14 Quotes for 'William Makepeace Thackeray' in the Database.
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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: None
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Christmas is here:
Winds whistle shrill,
Icy and chill,
Little care we:
Little we fear
Weather without,
Sheltered about
The Mahogany-Tree.
Topic: Christmas
Source: The Mahogany-Tree
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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Topic: Contentment
Source: None
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Although I enter not,
Yet round about the spot
Ofttimes I hover;
And near the sacred gate,
With longing eyes I wait,
Expectant of her.
Topic: Expectation
Source: Pendennis--At the Church Gate
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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
Topic: Flattery
Source: None
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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
Topic: Hearing
Source: Virginians (ch. XXXII)
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
Topic: Motherhood
Source: Vanity Fair (vol. II, ch. XII)
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Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
Topic: Novelty
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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
Topic: Novelty
Source: None
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Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men
claiming and bearing them.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Roundabout Papers--On Ribbons
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Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.
Topic: Selfishness
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create
anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the
thorns in our cushion.
- William Makepeace Thackeray,
Topic: Wounds
Source: Roundabout Papers--The Thorn in the Cushion
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