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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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Spirits
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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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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 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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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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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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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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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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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