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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
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Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: I shall alter that when I have a little more time? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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