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.

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

Sir Arthur Helps
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? -Sir Arthur Helps
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Sir Arthur Helps
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. -Sir Arthur Helps
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Sir Arthur Helps
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss -- a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Sir Arthur Helps
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers. -Sir Arthur Helps
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Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Sir Arthur Helps
120

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps
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