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.
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. 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. BENSONVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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. 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. BENSONI don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
A. C. BENSONReadjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. BENSONWhen you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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 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.
A. C. BENSONThe 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 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. 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. BENSONAs I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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