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You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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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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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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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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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The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
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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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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