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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.
A. C. Benson
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A. C. Benson
Age: 63 †
Born: 1862
Born: April 24
Died: 1925
Died: June 16
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Arthur Christopher Benson
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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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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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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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
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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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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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