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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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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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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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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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