Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
A. C. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
A. C. BENSONReadjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. BENSONThe worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSONDo 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!
A. C. BENSONVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. BENSONA well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSONOne’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. BENSONI don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
A. C. BENSONAs I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. BENSONI 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.
A. C. BENSONA 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.
A. C. BENSONCongenial labor is the secret of happiness.
A. C. BENSONThe 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. BENSONIt 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.
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.
A. C. BENSONI expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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