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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
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Men
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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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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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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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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