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Arthur Helps

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


— Arthur Helps


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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


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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.


— Arthur Helps


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


— Arthur Helps


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


— Arthur Helps


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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


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


— Arthur Helps


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


— Arthur Helps


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


— Arthur Helps


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Choose an author as you choose a friend.


— Arthur Helps


#choose #friend #you






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Helps was also affected by the banking panic of 1866 caused by the failure of Overend Gurney and Company. It had invested heavily in long-term railway stocks rather than holding cash reserves. A long essay on slavery in the first series of Friends in Council was subsequently elaborated into a work in two volumes publiArthur Helpsd in 1848 and 1852 called The Conquerors of the New World and their Bondsmen.

The brickworks went into liquidation in 1867 and Helps had to sell the Vernon Hill estate. L. In retaliation for the bombardment of Copenhagen the Danish government had impounded British goods in warehouses and merchant ships with their cargoes.

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