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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.
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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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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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 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 seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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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 expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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 worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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