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Arthur Christopher Benson, FRSL (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet and academic and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is noted especially for the words of the song “Land of Hope and Glory”.
A. C. Benson's selected quotes:
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do ...
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys ...
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears....
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery ...
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Arthur Christopher Benson, FRSL (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet and academic and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is noted especially for the words of the song “Land of Hope and Glory”.
All quotes from A. C. Benson sorted alphabetically:
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices, so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.