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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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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 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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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 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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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 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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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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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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