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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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 reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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