Experience is the extract of suffering.... -Arthur Helps

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Arthur Helps , Historian
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Arthur Helps was an English writer and historian known for his works on history and philosophy. He wrote extensively on various subjects, including morality, character, and the human condition. Helps' writings often offered insightful reflections on society and personal development, providing readers with thought-provoking perspectives on life and its complexities.

Arthur Helps Quotes to Explore

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 tru...
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice....
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune....
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 environm...
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice....
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away....
Experience is the extract of suffering....
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success....
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed....
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order....

Experience Quotes to Explore

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing p...
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in b...
Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that ...
The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it....
Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer....
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy....
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later....
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our r...
The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet mor...
When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experien...