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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of 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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Sir Arthur Helps
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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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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 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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To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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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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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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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 apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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