Arthur Helps Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Arthur Helps:

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.

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

Arthur Helps

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Arthur Helps

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

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

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Arthur Helps

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Arthur Helps

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

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

Arthur Helps

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

Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Arthur Helps

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Arthur Helps

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.

Arthur Helps

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

Arthur Helps

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

Arthur Helps