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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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Fortune
Happiness
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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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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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