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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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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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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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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 takes a great man to make a great listener
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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