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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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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
Biographer
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Sir Arthur Helps
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Simple
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Ignorance
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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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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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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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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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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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 reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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