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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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 most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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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 man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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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. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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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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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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