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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

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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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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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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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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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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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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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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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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