Arthur Helps Short Quotes

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The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

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

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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

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

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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

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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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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.

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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

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Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

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We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

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People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

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

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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

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We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

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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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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

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Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

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