William Makepeace Thackeray
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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
To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Danger is cool.
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
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