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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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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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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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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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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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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 very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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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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