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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/infinite-toil-would-not-enable-you-to-sweep-away-a-mist-but-by/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

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> [Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/infinite-toil-would-not-enable-you-to-sweep-away-a-mist-but-by-2/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

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## More by Arthur Helps

> [More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/more-than-half-the-difficulties-of-the-world-would-be-allayed-or/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/the-very-best-financial-presentation-is-one-that-s-well-thought-out/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/reading-is-sometimes-an-ingenious-device-for-avoiding-thought/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/always-win-fools-first-they-talk-much-and-what-they-have-once-uttered/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/those-who-are-successfully-to-lead-their-fellow-men-should-have-once/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/mankind-are-apt-to-be-strongly-prejudicial-in-favor-of-whatever-is/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/the-greatest-luxury-of-riches-is-that-they-enable-you-to-escape-so/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/i-do-not-know-of-any-sure-way-of-making-others-happy-as-being-so-one/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/every-happiness-is-a-hostage-to-fortune/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/a-man-s-action-is-only-a-picture-book-of-his-creed/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/to-hear-always-to-think-always-to-learn-always-it-is-thus-that-we/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/no-man-who-has-not-sat-in-the-assemblies-of-men-can-know-the-light/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/what-a-blessing-this-smoking-is-perhaps-the-greatest-that-we-owe-to/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/it-is-better-in-some-respects-to-be-admired-by-those-with-whom-you/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

> [Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-helps/those-who-never-philosophized-until-they-met-with-disappointments/)

[Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-helps/)

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