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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
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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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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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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 reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
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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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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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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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