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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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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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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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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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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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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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