Quotes by Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps

English writer and dean

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  • Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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  • Experience is the extract of suffering.
    ― Sir Arthur Helps
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  • In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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  • Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
    ― Sir Arthur Helps
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  • Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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  • The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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  • 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
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  • The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
    ― Sir Arthur Helps
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  • The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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  • There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
    Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
    ― Sir Arthur Helps
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  • There is the silent criticism of silence, worth all the rest.
    Friends in Council II, ch. 2
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  • Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
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What are the most famous quotes from Arthur Helps?

The two most famous quotes from Arthur Helps are:

  • "Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
  • "Experience is the extract of suffering."