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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Sir Arthur Helps
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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