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.
A. C. BENSONPeople who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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A well begun is half ended.
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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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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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