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Experience is the extract of suffering.

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
Extract
Suffering
Experience

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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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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 a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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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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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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 reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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