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. 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.
More A. C. Benson Quotes
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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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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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A well begun is half ended.
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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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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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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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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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