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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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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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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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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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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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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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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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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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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