"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune." — Arthur Helps

"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."

— Arthur Helps

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61 Quotes by Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps has 61 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his…
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to…
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

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More Every Happiness Quotes

This quote is filed under Every Happiness Quotes, one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. — Rainer Maria Rilke
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly… — Swami Vivekananda
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If There Was A Shop Of Happinesss And If I knew about it I would buy every happiness for you… — Babloo
If there was a shop of happiness And If I knew about it I would buy every happiness for you… — Unknown Author
I have lived behind barriers, I have lived in anguish, Friends, take me.... take me there, Where there is every… — Yashraj Suman
Broken Home My feelings tumble like a drier resulting from this broken home, I feel the blame laying unspoken sometimes… — Megannn(:

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