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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

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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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 greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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 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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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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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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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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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