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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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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 very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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