Arthur Helps - Man Quotes

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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child's clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships. Arthur Helps,

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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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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

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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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No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

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The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

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The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

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