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Type: Historian Quotes Category: British Historian Quotes Date of Birth: July 10, 1813 Date of Death: March 7, 1875 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Arthur Helps Related Authors: Arnold J. Toynbee Lord Acton C. Northcote Parkinson A. J. P. Taylor E. P. Thompson B. H. Liddell Hart Eric Hobsbawm |
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Arthur Helps A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Arthur Helps Choose an author as you choose a friend. Arthur Helps Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. Arthur Helps Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. Arthur Helps Experience is the extract of suffering. Arthur Helps 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. Arthur Helps In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. Arthur Helps Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? Arthur Helps 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. Arthur Helps 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. Arthur Helps Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. Arthur Helps Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Arthur Helps Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. Arthur Helps The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. Arthur Helps 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. Arthur Helps The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. Arthur Helps 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. Arthur Helps We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Arthur Helps Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Arthur Helps |
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