English - Novelist | May 27, 1867 - March 27, 1931
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
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The moment you're born you're done for.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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