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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

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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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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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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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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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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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