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

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  Men, Empathy, Understanding

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• It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

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  Men, Silence, Might

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Mistake, Humility, Fate

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

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• The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

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  Leadership, Men, Causes

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

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• Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

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  Wise, Winning, Men

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.114

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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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• The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

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  Funny, Money, Luxury

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.181

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