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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
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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 apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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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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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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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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