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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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

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

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

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

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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

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A well begun is half ended.

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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

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

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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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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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