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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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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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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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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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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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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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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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