A well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSONA well begun is half ended.
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. BENSONThe worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSONThe moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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. BENSONCongenial labor is the secret of happiness.
A. C. BENSONPeople who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
A. C. BENSONIt seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
A. C. BENSONThe friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
A. C. BENSONOne’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. BENSONVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. BENSONI have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A. C. BENSONWhen you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSONI think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
A. C. BENSONAmbition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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