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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Arthur Helps

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Sir Arthur Helps
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Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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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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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
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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. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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