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Arthur Helps Quotes: If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
         

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.


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

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



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



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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.



A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.



In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.



Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.



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 living.

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 living.



He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.



Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.



It takes a great man to make a great listener

It takes a great man to make a great listener





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