Arthur Helps Quotes

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

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• Choose an author as you choose a friend.

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• Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

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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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• The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

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

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• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

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  Tags in Affliction, Strength

• A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

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

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• The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

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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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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Humility, Cosmetics

• 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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  Topics in Ambition

• 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.

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  Topics in Suffering

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

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

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  Topics in Success

• 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 a tiresome labor is immense.

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  Topics in Achievement

• Experience is the extract of suffering.

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• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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

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  Topics in Wisdom

• Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

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Arthur Helps (21)

Birth:	10th July, 1813
Death:	7th March, 1875
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Historian, Writer

About

Sir Arthur Helps was born in Streatham in South London. He was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, coming out thirty-first wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1835.

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