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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
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