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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
Biographer
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Sir Arthur Helps
Happiness
Every
Hostage
Fortune

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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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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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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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 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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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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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 worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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