"Those who never philosophized until they met with……" — Arthur Helps
"Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers"
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61 Quotes by Arthur Helps
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- 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…
- 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.
- The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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