The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
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.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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A 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.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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I 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.
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I 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.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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