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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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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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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
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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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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