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Quotes from Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms — Arthur Helps

1813–1875 England

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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms (1871)

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms (1871)

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.

Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms (1871)

The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.

Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms (1871)

There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.

Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms (1871)

Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms (1871)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Helps (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.