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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.
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 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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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 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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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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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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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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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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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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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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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A well begun is half ended.
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