Arthur Helps citations

Arthur Helps,né le 10 juillet 1813 à Streatham et mort le 7 mars 1875 dans le sud de Londres, est un écrivain et historien anglais qui fut commis du Conseil privé de la reine Victoria. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. juillet 1813 – 7. mars 1875
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Arthur Helps: Citations en anglais

“You must work for yourself; for what you reject may be as important for you to have seen and thought about, as what you adopt.”

‘On the Transaction of Business’, p. 85.
Essays written in the Intervals of Business, (1841)

“Even the most careless people have a sort of aversion to signing things which they have never considered.”

‘Of Councils, Commissions, and, in general, of ... ’ p.116.
Essays written in the Intervals of Business, (1841)

“Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.”

‘Unreasonable Claims in Social Affections and Relations’, Chapter IX.
Friends in Council (First Series), (1847),

“No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.25.

“Do not mistake energy for enthusiasm; the softest speakers are often the most enthusiastic of men.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.17.

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