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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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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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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
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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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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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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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 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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