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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
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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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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 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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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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