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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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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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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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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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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 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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