# The History of Henry Esmond

- Author: [William Makepeace Thackeray](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray/the-history-of-henry-esmond

## Quotes

> I think Steele shone rather than sparkled.

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> We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

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> If there is a verity in wine, according to the old adage, what an amiable-natured character Dick's must have been! In proportion as he took in wine he overflowed with kindness.

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> Dick never thought that his bottle companion was a butt to aim at—only a friend to shake by the hand.

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> 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

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> Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

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> There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

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> '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 is difficult, as I know to my cost.

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