Arthur Helps
Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps KCB HonDCLwas an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 July 1813
lying men world
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
book men action
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
advice stories half
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
weakness prominent
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
science men errors
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
men praise persons
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
pride atmosphere wickedness
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
disappointment philosopher mets
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
honesty hypocrite expression
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.
mistake humility important-events
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.
atmosphere looks may
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
time father people
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
spiritual loss self
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.
inspirational motivational success
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.