The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSONPeople who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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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 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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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