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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Sir Arthur Helps
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It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
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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.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment but they are a present pleasure.
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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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.
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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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