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It takes a great man to make a great listener

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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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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 be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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