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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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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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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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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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.
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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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