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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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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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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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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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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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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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