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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
Deceived
Acts
Picture
Full
Men
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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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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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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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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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