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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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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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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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 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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Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment but they are a present pleasure.
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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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