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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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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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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 greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take 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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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