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

Arthur Helps

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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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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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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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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 measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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 takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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