Frases de Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps, também conhecido como A. Helps foi um historiador inglês.

✵ 10. Julho 1813 – 7. Março 1875
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Arthur Helps frases e citações

“Às vezes a leitura é um modo engenhoso de evitar o pensamento.”

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Friends in council: a series of readings and discourse thereon [by sir A. Helps].‎ - Página 277 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=B6YDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277, de Arthur Helps - 1857

Arthur Helps: Frases em inglês

“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.”

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