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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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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
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
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
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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Emotion Man Opinion Responsibility Suffering Taste Teacher Teaching Try Worth
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
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
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
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
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
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
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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Clear Direction Help Oneself See Solution Statement Writing
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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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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