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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

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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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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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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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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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