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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
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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Door Journey Joy Mystery Soul Spiritual Thinking
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Best Deep Escape Oneself Reality Story World
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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Circumstance Fast Fly Goodness Myself Time Trap
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Beautiful Growth Mystery Pilgrimage Slow World
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Interest Myself People Person Quite
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Adjust Need Ourselves Pain Process Time
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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Account Book Chronicle Conversation Movement Need Walk
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Age Life Oneself Reach
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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Goodness Letter Listening Talk Test Writing

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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