A. C. Benson quotes

A. C. Benson

"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
A. C. Benson
Wisdom People Way Right
"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
A. C. Benson
Best Reality Escape Us
"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
Business Mind Way Up Clear
"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
A. C. Benson
Life Worst Losses Fears
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
A. C. Benson
Good You Important More
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
A. C. Benson
Beautiful World Grow Mystery
"Man, an animal that makes bargains."
A. C. Benson
Man Animal Makes
"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
A. C. Benson
Life Long You Age More
"A well begun is half ended."
A. C. Benson
Well Half Begun Ended
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
A. C. Benson
Men Ambition Doing Position
"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
Teacher I Am Duty Boy
"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
A. C. Benson
Newspaper Fiction Form Read
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
A. C. Benson
Motivational Change Positive
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
A. C. Benson
Motivational Change Positive
"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
A. C. Benson
Inspirational Helping Others People
"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
A. C. Benson
Fear Loss Reality
"People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end."
A. C. Benson
People Goes On Ends
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
A. C. Benson
Beautiful World Mystery Novels
"Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another."
A. C. Benson
Change Moving Forward Needs
"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
Doors Joy Soul
"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."
A. C. Benson
Love Life Writing
"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
Believe Nine Reason
"A well begun is half ended."
A. C. Benson
Plato Half Action
"Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world."
A. C. Benson
World Appearance Expensive
"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
Overcoming Helping Sometimes
"I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority."
A. C. Benson
People Authority
"The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life."
A. C. Benson
Real Real Life May
"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
A. C. Benson
Long Age Littles
"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."
A. C. Benson
Sympathy Thinking Views
"I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation."
A. C. Benson
Appreciation Deserve
"The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter."
A. C. Benson
Simple Talking Letters
"The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter."
A. C. Benson
Simple Talking Letters
"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
Book Giving Needs
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
A. C. Benson
Work Ambition Men
"I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy."
A. C. Benson
Happiness People Unhappy
"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
Beauty Uplifting Song
"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
A. C. Benson
Funny Book Reading
"Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!"
A. C. Benson
Jam Sticks Pot

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