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~ Arthur Christopher Benson Quotes ~
« on: December 16, 2013, 04:08:54 PM »
Arthur Christopher Benson Quotes


An English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Arthur Christopher Benson (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Here are some famous quotes by Arthur Christopher Benson.




Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2013, 04:09:25 PM »
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2013, 04:10:01 PM »
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

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« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2013, 04:10:34 PM »
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.

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« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2013, 04:11:20 PM »
Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.

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« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2013, 04:11:55 PM »
The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

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« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2013, 04:12:33 PM »
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.

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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2013, 04:13:08 PM »
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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« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2013, 04:13:48 PM »
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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« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2013, 04:14:33 PM »
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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« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2013, 04:15:54 PM »
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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« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2013, 04:16:46 PM »
Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.

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« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2013, 04:18:39 PM »
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.