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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

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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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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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 worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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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 measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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 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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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