As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. BENSONI don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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A well begun is half ended.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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