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. 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.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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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 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.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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A well begun is half ended.
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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 don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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