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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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Sir Arthur Helps
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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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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 sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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 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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment but they are a present pleasure.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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