The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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 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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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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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A well begun is half ended.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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