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
vices world tolerate
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
lying men world
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.
half world exhibitions
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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.
ego selfishness world
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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.
understood known
We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.