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 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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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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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A well begun is half ended.
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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 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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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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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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 moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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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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