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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.
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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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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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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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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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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 have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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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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