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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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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 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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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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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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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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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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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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