The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. - Arthur Helps
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
- Arthur Helps
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 tr… - Arthur Helps
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 tr…
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 environ… - Arthur Helps
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 environ…
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of livi… - 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, is not worthy of livi…
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. - Arthur Helps
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. - Arthur Helps
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. - Arthur Helps
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it. - Arthur Helps
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. - Arthur Helps
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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