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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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Men
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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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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 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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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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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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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the 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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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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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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Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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