Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. BENSONReadjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. BENSONIt is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
A. C. BENSONI have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A. C. BENSONCongenial labor is the secret of happiness.
A. C. BENSONI expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. BENSONI believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
A. C. BENSONA diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
A. C. BENSONVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. BENSONI never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
A. C. BENSONDo you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
A. C. BENSONI am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. BENSONPeople who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
A. C. BENSONAs I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. BENSONA well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSONPeople seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. BENSONThe worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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