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• Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Thinking, Deceived

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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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  Character, May, Action

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

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  Mistake, Humility, Fate

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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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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  Overcoming, Danger, Has Beens

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life”, p.20

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

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  Opinion, Argument

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

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  Men, Appreciate, Harsh

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.6

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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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  Gratitude, Way, Favour

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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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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  Religion, Persons

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.141

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• It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

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  Men, Silence, Might

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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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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  Weakness, Prominent

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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

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  Funny, Money, Luxury

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.181

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

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  Giving, Pleasure, Please

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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

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  Leadership, Men, Causes

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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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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  Science, Men, Errors

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

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  Mixtures, Recipes, Admiration

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• Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

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  Wise, Winning, Men

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.114

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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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  Character, Men, Opinion

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

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  Art, Business, Character

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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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  Beautiful, Kindness, Firefly

  Sir Arthur Helps (1859). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourses Thereon. A New Series”, p.94

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• Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

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  Wisdom, Suffering

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Conversations on War and General Culture”, p.283

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• Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

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  Character, Men, Advice

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life”, p.76

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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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  Atmosphere, Littles, Toil

  Sir Arthur Helps (1853). “Fruits of leisure: Essays written in the intervals of business”, p.25

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• The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

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  Business, Financial, Wells

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• Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

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  Fall, Men, Glasses

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.25

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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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  Vanity, Admiration, Accounts

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.83

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