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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
Memory
Memories
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Forgetfulness
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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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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