Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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.
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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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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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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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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 have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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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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A well begun is half ended.
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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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It 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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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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