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.
A. C. BENSONVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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A well begun is half ended.
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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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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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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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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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