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Inspirational Quotes by Arthur Helps
- No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
- They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
- We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
- Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
- The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
- There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made…
- Experience is the extract of suffering.
- Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
- The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
- Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
- Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
- Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
- Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the…
- 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…
- I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.
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