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Famous Quotes By A. C. Benson

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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson

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Man, an animal that makes bargains. — A. C. Benson

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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. — A. C. Benson

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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift. — A. C. Benson

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson

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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. — A. C. Benson

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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world. — A. C. Benson

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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed. — A. C. Benson

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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. — A. C. Benson

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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. — A. C. Benson

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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. — A. C. Benson

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

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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. — A. C. Benson

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A well begun is half ended. — A. C. Benson

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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy. — A. C. Benson

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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation. — A. C. Benson

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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority. — A. C. Benson

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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. — A. C. Benson

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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. — A. C. Benson

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

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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation. — A. C. Benson

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

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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer. — A. C. Benson

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. — A. C. Benson

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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. — A. C. Benson