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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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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 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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