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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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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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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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