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Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
— Arthur Helps
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
— Arthur Helps
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
— Arthur Helps
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
— Arthur Helps
who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?
— Arthur C. Clarke
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
— Arthur Helps
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
— Arthur Helps
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions ... answering them in advance.
— Arthur Helps
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
— Arthur Helps
It takes a great man to make a great listener
— Arthur Helps
Experience is the extract of suffering.
— Arthur Helps
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
— Arthur Helps
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
— Arthur Helps
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
— Arthur Helps
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
— Arthur Helps
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
— Arthur Helps
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
— Arthur Helps
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
— Arthur Helps
The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt. A. E. HOUSMAN MORE POEMS
— Arthur C. Clarke
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
— Arthur Helps
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
— Arthur Helps
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
— Arthur Helps
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
— Arthur Helps
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
— Arthur Helps
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
— Arthur Helps
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
— Arthur Helps
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.
— Arthur Helps
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
— Arthur Helps
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
— Arthur Helps
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
— Arthur Helps
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
— Arthur Helps
imagination is the image-making faculty of the intellect that helps us discover, process, and creatively express coherent meaning.
— Sarah Arthur
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
— Arthur Helps
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
— Arthur Helps
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
— Arthur Helps
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
— Arthur Helps
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
— Arthur Helps
Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
— Arthur Helps
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
— Arthur Helps
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
— Arthur Helps
