The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSONThe moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSONAmbition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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. BENSONI expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. BENSONWhen you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSONReadjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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. 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. 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. BENSONThe worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSONVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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. BENSONCongenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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