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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with W >> Quotes By William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Quote #1: | "There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write." |
| Quote #2: | "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." |
| Quote #3: | "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." |
| Quote #4: | "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" |
| Quote #5: | "To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best." |
| Quote #6: | "To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." |
| Quote #7: | "'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to it that's difficult." |
| Quote #8: | "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." |
| Quote #9: | "When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." |
| Quote #10: | "Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity." |
| Quote #11: | "I would rather make my name than inherit it." |
| Quote #12: | "Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb." |
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