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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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 most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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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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It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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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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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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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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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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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