When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how … - Arthur Helps

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Arthur Helps

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.

Events, Fate, Humility, Learn, Mistake, Originated

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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.

Art, Business, Character, Tact, Veritable, Way

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Gained, Seldom, Suffering, Wisdom

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.

Chair, He Man, Horrid, Illusion, Men, Terrors

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Done, Good, Loss, Self, Spiritual, Turned

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Advice, Ask, Half, Stories, Tell, Weaker