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

Arthur Helps

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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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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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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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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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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