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. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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A well begun is half ended.
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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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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