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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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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
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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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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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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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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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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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