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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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