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Arthur Helps [1813-1875] British

Rank: 102
Historian, Writer

Sir Arthur Helps KCB HonDCL was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle.

Wisdom, Beauty, Inspirational, Money, Success

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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.	Inspirational	101
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.	Wisdom	102
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.	Beauty	103
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.		104
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.		105
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.	Success	106
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.		107
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.		108
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.		109
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.	Money	110
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.	Wisdom	111
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.		112
Experience is the extract of suffering.		113
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?		114
Choose an author as you choose a friend.		115
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.		116
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.		117
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.		118
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.		119

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