"Life is soul's nursery- its training place for……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity."
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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183 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray has 183 quotes on this site.
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and…
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent…
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure…
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.
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More Destinies Quotes
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
— Les Brown
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
— Heraclitus
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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
— Clement Attlee
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them…
— William Osler
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Although we think of them as extraordinary, miracles also streak across our consciousness every day. We can choose to notice…
— Deepak Chopra
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so…
— Thomas Szasz
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When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.
— Deepak Chopra
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