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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.

A. C. Benson

I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
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
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
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
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
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
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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Different Expression Feeling Normal Sympathy Thinking View
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive 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
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Ambition Circumstance Hard Work Labor Men Position Work
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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Help Oneself Power Time Trouble
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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Company Disappointment Discover Expectation Friendship Hope Smile Survive
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Goodness Life Moment Reality Stifle Yourself
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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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Believe Instinct Reason
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success

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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