Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — Arthur Helps Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. — Arthur Helps Admiration Copy Share Image
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both. — Arthur Helps Inspirational Copy Share Image
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps Boredom Copy Share Image
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. — Arthur Helps Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. — Arthur Helps Age Copy Share Image
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it. — Arthur Helps Advice Copy Share Image
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be. — Arthur Helps Action Copy Share Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that… — Arthur Helps Blunders Copy Share Image
A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence,… — Arthur Helps Character Copy Share Image
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened… — Arthur Helps Chains Copy Share Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. — Arthur Helps Danger Copy Share Image
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. — Arthur Helps Books Copy Share Image
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte. — Arthur Helps Argument Copy Share Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps Disappointed Copy Share Image
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps Ignorance Copy Share Image
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers. — Arthur Helps Father Copy Share Image
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them. — Arthur Helps Language Copy Share Image
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman,… — Arthur Helps Family Copy Share Image
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown. — Arthur Helps Endurance Copy Share Image
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