Best Quotes by Arnold Bennett (Top 10)
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The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
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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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The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
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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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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
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Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
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More Arnold Bennett Quotes
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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.
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The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.
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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
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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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The price of justice is eternal publicity.
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
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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.
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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