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 environment.

Quote by Arthur Helps

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot...

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot...

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good...

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good...

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by...

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by...

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery...

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery...

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the...

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the...

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a...

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a...

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in...

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in...

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a...

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a...

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has...

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has...

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium...

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium...