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

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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 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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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
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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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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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 worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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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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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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