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A. C. Benson Biography

Arthur Christopher Benson (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet, author and academic and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is noted for writing the words of the song "Land of Hope and Glory".

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

Helping Others, Inspirational, Offers, People, Right, Seldom

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.

Down, Inspirational, Paper, Putting, Way, Wonderful

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

Ambition, Men, Performed, Position, Same, Work

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.

Aim, Book, Giving, Movements, Needs

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

Beautiful, Grow, Mystery Novels, Pilgrimage, Slow, World

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

Age, Lavatory, Littles, Long, March

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

Fear, Fears, Loss, Losses, Reality, Sorrows

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.

Beauty, Song, Sorrow, Tide, Uplifting, Way

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.

Bring, Dawn, Endure, Fill, Mind, People

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

Happiness, People, Unhappy, Person, Interested

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

Help, Helping, Overcome, Overcoming, Sometimes, Troubles

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.

Believe, Instinct, Nine, Reason, Ten

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!

Jam, Lay, Like, Pot, Sticks, Thing

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.

Good, Letters, Reads, Simple, Talking, Test

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Background, Becomes, Business, Decision, Making, Mean

A well begun is half ended.

Action, Begun, Ended, Half, Plato

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

Appreciation, Deserve, Expect, Pretty

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.

Like, Normal, Sympathy, Think, Thinking, Views

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Life, May, Moment, Real, Real Life, Stifles

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.

Boy, Boys, Life, Self Esteem, Teacher, Worth

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