British - Historian | July 10, 1813 - March 7, 1875
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
Arthur Helps
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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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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.
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The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
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