The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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 never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
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A well begun is half ended.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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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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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 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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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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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