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.

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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

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

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

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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.

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

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A well begun is half ended.

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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.

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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

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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.

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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

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

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

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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.

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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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