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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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 sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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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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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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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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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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