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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Arthur Helps

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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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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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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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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