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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
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Suffering
Experience

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
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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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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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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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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 worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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