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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

Topics: Average Chill Environment Feet Ground Heart High Keep Refuse Soar Spiritual Surrender Will Your

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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.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Beauty Better Calmness Cosmetics Countenance Graces Gracious Humility Modesty Purity Severe Spirit Temper Temperance Than True True Beauty Very Without

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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.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Accomplished Achieve Certain Confidence Costs Decided Distaste Gain Having Immense Labor Once Self Task Tiresome

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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Away Barren Fall Ground Kind Kind Word Never Often Sayings Thrown Wise Word

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We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

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Topics: Admire Advice Come People Us Who Wisdom

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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Any More Order Organization Paralysis Routine Than

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

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Topics: Anything Boredom Dying Faculties Less Sense Slowly Than

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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Admiration Affection Mixture Pity Recipes Surest

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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Book Corner Everywhere Except Found Little Myself Rest Sitting Sought

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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Ape Book Day First Man Vanquished Written

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: July 10th, 1813

Died: March 7th, 1875

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