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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

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions ... answering them in advance. — Arthur Helps

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. — 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

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one. — 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

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

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. — Arthur Helps

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

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

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover. — Arthur Helps

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. — Arthur Helps

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both. — 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

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure. — 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

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

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps

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

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — 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

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

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

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader. — Arthur Helps

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct. — 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 frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. — Arthur Helps

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. — Arthur Helps

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self. — 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

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

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom. — Arthur Helps

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it. — 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

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

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself. — Arthur Helps