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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Heart, Joy, Cheerful

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Love, Heart, Ifs
William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.662

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Heart, Stones, Written

Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Love, Heart, Doors
William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “Roundabout Papers: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Heart, Pity

What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Appreciation, Heart, Mean
"Sketches and Travels in London: To which are Added Novels by Eminent Hands, and Character Sketches".

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Friends, Heart, Friendly
William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.149

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Heart, Uniforms, Lovers
William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

William Makepeace Thackeray
Smart, Heart, Men
William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.273

if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

William Makepeace Thackeray
Heart, Differences, Deuces
William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “Vanity Fair, etc”, p.92

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

William Makepeace Thackeray
Wisdom, Patience, Heart
William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4236, Delphi Classics

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Love, Heart, Two
William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.133

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother, Daughter, Heart
William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.197

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

William Makepeace Thackeray
Heart, Lavender, Favour
William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illus”, p.339

What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

William Makepeace Thackeray
Love, Selfish, Heart
William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.155

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Courage, Military, Heart
William Makepeace Thackeray (1865). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.96

To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Memories, Lying, Heart
William Makepeace Thackeray (1925). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself”

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Heart, Quality, Endurance
William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The history of Henry Esmond, esq”, p.50

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