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Quotes by Sir Arthur Helps

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
– Sir Arthur Helps
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Achilles absent was Achilles still!
– Sir Arthur Helps
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Experience is the extract of suffering.
– Sir 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.
– Sir Arthur Helps
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
– Sir Arthur Helps
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
– Sir 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.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
– Sir Arthur Helps
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
– Sir 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.
– Sir Arthur Helps
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
– Sir Arthur Helps
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
– Sir 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.
– Sir Arthur Helps
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
– Sir Arthur Helps
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
– Sir Arthur Helps
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
– Sir Arthur Helps