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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.
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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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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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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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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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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 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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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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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