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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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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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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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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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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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