As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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 expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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I 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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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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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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A well begun is half ended.
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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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