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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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 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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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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