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Arthur Helps Inspirational Quotes (58)

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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
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He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
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A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
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It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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