Arnold Bennett Quotes

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• The chief beauty about time is 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 misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

  Arnold Bennett

  Motivational, New Year, Lying

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• Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

  Arnold Bennett

  Positive, Happiness, Attitude

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

  Arnold Bennett

  Change, Moving On, Life Changing

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reading, Cutting, Reflection

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• Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

  Arnold Bennett

  Communication, Voice, Tone

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• You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

  Arnold Bennett

  Good Morning, Time, Purses

  "How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day".

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• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

  Arnold Bennett

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

  Arnold Bennett

  Advice, Matter, Behave

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)”, p.3905, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Arnold Bennett

  Depression, Inspirational Life, Worry

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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.

  Arnold Bennett

  Real, Men, Effort

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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.

  Arnold Bennett

  Learning, Knowledge, Soul

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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• 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

  Hope, Media, Long

  The Title (1918) act 2

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• You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

  Arnold Bennett

  Universe

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• At moments we are all artists.

  Arnold Bennett

  Artist, Moments

  Arnold Bennett, Sir Newman Flower (1932). “Delenda est * BOD : staff use only”

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• A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

  Arnold Bennett

  True Friend, Achievement, Likes

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• Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

  Arnold Bennett

  Suicide, Procrastination, Funny Procrastination

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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.

  Arnold Bennett

  Littles, Too Much, Human Nature

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

  Arnold Bennett

  Character, Taste, Good Taste

  1930 In the Evening Standard, 21 Aug.

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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.

  Arnold Bennett

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail.
  They cannot give their entire attention to it.

  Arnold Bennett

  Jobs, Husband, Giving

  The Title (1918) act 1

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• 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

  Past, Yield, People

  Arnold Bennett, Edward Knoblock, Alan Alexander Milne, Novel Coward, Robert Cedric Sherriff (1951). “Modern Plays ...”

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• Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

  Arnold Bennett

  Procrastination, Tasks, Cost

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• Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mom, Mother, Clever

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

  Arnold Bennett

  Justice, Publicity, Eternity

  Things that have Interested Me (2nd series, 1923) "Secret Trials"

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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.

  Arnold Bennett

  Firsts, Unexpected, Planning

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