Arthur Helps Quotes

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

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  Inspirational, Wise, Gratitude

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

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• 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 chill of your spiritual environment.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

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• Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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  Book, Reading, Beer

  Arthur Helps (1851). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.263

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• The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

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  Success, Use, Made

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

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• Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

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  Real, Civilization, Tolerance

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

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• To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

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  Thinking, Improvement, Worthy

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• Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

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  Freedom, Men, Chains

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

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

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  Order, Organization, Routine

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.33, [s.n.]

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• He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

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  Views, Forever, Pedestal

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• We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.

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  Life, Knowledge, Drawing

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.204

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• In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

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  Success, Business, Congratulations

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

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  Book, Men, Action

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• It takes a great man to make a great listener

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  Men, Empathy, Understanding

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• Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

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  Dying Slowly, Boredom, Faculty

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• A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.

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  Wise, Lonely, Retirement

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

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• There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

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  Beauty, Humility, Grace

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• Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

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  Ego, Selfishness, World

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.176

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• No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

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  Men, Praise, Persons

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• I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

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  Happiness, Self, Way

  "Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon".

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• More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

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  Would Be, Half, World

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

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  Ignorance, Foolishness

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

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• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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  Fortune, Hostage

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• Experience is the extract of suffering.

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  Suffering

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

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  Children, Boys, Men

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

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• If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.

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  Jealous, Deception, May

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

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