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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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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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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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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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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 know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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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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