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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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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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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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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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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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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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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 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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