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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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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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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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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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