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

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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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.
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You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
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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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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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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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