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

— Arthur Helps

#away #barren #fall #ground #kind

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

#better #calmness #cosmetics #countenance #graces

Choose an author as you choose a friend. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#choose #friend #you

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#fortune #happiness #hostage

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

— Arthur Helps

#corner #everywhere #except #found #i

Experience is the extract of suffering. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#extract #suffering

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

— Arthur Helps

#common #objective #organization #success #towards

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

#always #appeared #cannot #done #express

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

— Arthur Helps

#more #order #organization #paralysis #routine

Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain. ↗

— Johanna de Silentio

#growing-up #inspirational #life-lessons #inspirational