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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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 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.
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The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored that is to say, he is not living.
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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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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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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