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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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 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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You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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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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