A. C. Benson quotes

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)
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. View quote
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. View quote
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. View quote
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A well begun is half ended. View quote
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I must consider," said Monica with a smile, "but one can't do these things offhand--that is worse than doing nothing. I'll tell you what to do NOW. Why not go and stay with Aunt Anne? She would like to see you, I know, and I have always thought it rather lazy of you not to go there--she is rather a remarkable woman, and it's a pretty country. Have you ever been there? View quote
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Let those whose Hearts and Hands are strong Tell eager Tales of mighty Deeds; Enough if my sequestered song To hush'd and twilight Gardens leads! Clear Waters, drawn from secret Wells Perchance may fevered Lips assuage; The Tales an elder Pilgrim tells To such as go on Pilgrimage. Such the soft Path my Words would trace, Thus with the moving Waters move; So leave, across the Ocean's Face, A glimmering Stair to Hope and Love. View quote
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. View quote
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. View quote
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. View quote
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