Arthur Helps
Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps KCB HonDCLwas an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 July 1813
character men opinion
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
character men advice
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
art business character
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
character may action
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
character world concern
The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
character errors feelings
A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
reports vague
Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.
changed earth face spirit whose
Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us
corner everywhere except found sought
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
british-historian people wisdom
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
love race imagination
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race. One has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but the creation of the imagination; still it is a great advance for a person to be profoundly loving, even in his or her imagination.
men bravery example
The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
land advice foolish
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.
vanity admiration accounts
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.