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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
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