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“Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.”

Arthur Helps

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 116

Past , Future

“The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.”

Arthur Helps

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.26.

Knowledge

“A very useful book might be written with the sole object of advising what parts of what books should be read. It should not be a book of elegant extracts, but should merely refer to the passages which are advised to be read. It might also indicate what are the chief works upon any given subject. For example, take rent; the important passages in Adam Smith, Ricardo, Jones, Mill, and other writers, should be referred to.”

Arthur Helps

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 37

Books , Reading , Parting

“How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwards.”

Arthur Helps

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.24.