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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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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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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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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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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment but they are a present pleasure.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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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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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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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 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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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