A. C. Benson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Nine Quotes

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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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

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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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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

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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 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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

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A well begun is half ended.

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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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