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Arthur Helps was a British writer and critic renowned for his contributions to literary and art criticism. Born on July 10, 1813, he made a significant impact on the literary world with his insightful analyses and reviews. Helps passed away on March 7, 1875, leaving behind a lasting legacy of critical thought and appreciation for the arts.

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“Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs World May Self Done Spiritual Suffering Loss This World Accounts Self Inflicted

Book:Companions of My Solitude

Source: Companions of My Solitude

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

Knows Way Self Happiness

Author:Arthur Helps

About the Author

Born: July 10, 1813
Died: March 7, 1875
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 96

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Thoughts in the Cloister and the CrowdRelated source material

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Brevia: Short Essays and AphorismsRelated source material

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse ThereonRelated source material

Companions of My SolitudeRelated source material

Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily LifeRelated source material

Conversations on war and general cultureRelated source material

Organization in Daily Life: An EssayRelated source material

Friends in CouncilRelated source material

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourses Thereon. A New SeriesRelated source material

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