Nature Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

10 Nature quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Thackeray’s take on the wild is anything but solemn; his sharp humor and vivid imagination make each line a playful stroll through fields and forests. These ten snippets showcase his knack for finding irony and charm in the everyday landscape.

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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

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As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To…

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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…

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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness,…

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As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too;…

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Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men.…

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“Nature made you for that career which you fulfilled: you were from your birth to your dying a scoundrel; you COULDN’T have…

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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or…

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“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh,…

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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

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Vanity is often the unseen spur.

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

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“Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig.…

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