The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
A. C. BENSONThe friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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 expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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.
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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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