Arthur Helps Quotes

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

Wisdom, Wise, Away

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

Beauty, True, Humility

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

Spiritual, Heart, Keep

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

Strength, Deep, Silence

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

Book, Action, Picture

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

Affection, Admiration, Pity

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

Confidence, Self, Once

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

Sense, Boredom, Less

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

Book, Written, Ape

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Arthur Helps

Wisdom, Advice, Admire

Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Arthur Helps

Friend, Choose, Author

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Arthur Helps

Happiness, Fortune, Hostage

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

Book, Rest, Found

Experience is the extract of suffering.
Arthur Helps

Experience, Suffering, Extract

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

Success, Working, Common

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

Good, Spiritual, May

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
Arthur Helps

Order, Routine, Paralysis

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

Good, Greatest, Advice

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

Greatest, Woman, Cannot

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

Sense, Danger, Overcome

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: July 10, 1813

Died: March 7, 1875

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