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Arthur Helps Quotes about Character

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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

Arthur Helps
Character, May, Action
Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

Arthur Helps
Character, Men, Opinion
Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

Arthur Helps
Art, Business, Character

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Arthur Helps
Character, Men, Advice
Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life”, p.76

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

Arthur Helps
Character, World, Concern
Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.

Arthur Helps
Character, Errors, Feelings
Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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