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Arnold Bennett Quotes

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts Picture Quote #1

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism Picture Quote #1

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened Picture Quote #1

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it Picture Quote #1

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire Picture Quote #1

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles Picture Quote #1

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If you’ve ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I’ve often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn’t bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost Picture Quote #1

If you’ve ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life Picture Quote #1

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas... You cannot make bricks without straw Picture Quote #1

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality Picture Quote #1

If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living Picture Quote #1

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else Picture Quote #1

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Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own Picture Quote #1

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating Picture Quote #1

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission Picture Quote #1

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is Picture Quote #1

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity Picture Quote #1

Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true Picture Quote #1

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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top Picture Quote #1

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate Picture Quote #1

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists Picture Quote #1

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind Picture Quote #1

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top Picture Quote #1

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman Picture Quote #1

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do Picture Quote #1

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round Picture Quote #1

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it (Arnold Bennett Quotes) I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire (Arnold Bennett Quotes) The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles (Arnold Bennett Quotes) If you’ve ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I’ve often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn’t bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost (Arnold Bennett Quotes) If you’ve ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life (Arnold Bennett Quotes) You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas... You cannot make bricks without straw (Arnold Bennett Quotes) It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality (Arnold Bennett Quotes) If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living (Arnold Bennett Quotes) The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own (Arnold Bennett Quotes) A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission (Arnold Bennett Quotes) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true (Arnold Bennett Quotes) It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate (Arnold Bennett Quotes) Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man (Arnold Bennett Quotes) 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 (Arnold Bennett Quotes) 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 (Arnold Bennett Quotes) 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 (Arnold Bennett Quotes) To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists (Arnold Bennett Quotes) No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind (Arnold Bennett Quotes) It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top (Arnold Bennett Quotes) During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman (Arnold Bennett Quotes) All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do (Arnold Bennett Quotes) The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round (Arnold Bennett Quotes)

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