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A. C. Benson

  • A. C. Benson

    Arthur Christopher Benson (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

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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.

Tags: Mind, Making, Means
A. C. Benson

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

Tags: Anything, Cannot, Until
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.

Tags: Try, Show, Worth
A. C. Benson

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Tags: News, Fiction
A. C. Benson

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

Tags: life, Ambition
A. C. Benson

A well begun is half ended.

Tags: life
A. C. Benson

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

Tags: life, World
A. C. Benson

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that`s good taste.

Tags: Life, Doing, Inspirational
A. C. Benson

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

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