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

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  Success, Business, Congratulations

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

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  Men, Thinking, Deceived

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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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• 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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• 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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• Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

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  Book, Reading, Men

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• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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  Fortune, Hostage

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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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• 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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• It takes a great man to make a great listener

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  Men, Empathy, Understanding

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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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• They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

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  Pity, Poor, Relation

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

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• The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

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  Men, Bravery, Example

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.128

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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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• 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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• War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

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  Kings, War, Rome

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

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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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• No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

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  Men, Light, Decision

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.11, [s.n.]

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