It 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. BENSONI have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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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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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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A well begun is half ended.
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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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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 expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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