Capacity Quote by Arthur Helps

“The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.”

Arthur Helps

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I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

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