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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

Arthur Helps

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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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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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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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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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