A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.

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.

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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.

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

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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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.

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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

Arthur Helps

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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

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

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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

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

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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

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It takes a great man to make a great listener

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

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They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

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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.

Arthur Helps

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Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

Arthur Helps

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