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The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
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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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The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
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It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
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