Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
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
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.
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…
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.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. - Arthur Helps
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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