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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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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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 seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
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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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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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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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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 expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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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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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 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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