While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad… - Robert Hugh Benson
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad…
- Robert Hugh Benson
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. - Robert Hugh Benson
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more tr… - Robert Hugh Benson
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more tr…
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd. - Robert Hugh Benson
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.
It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world. - Robert Hugh Benson
It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... t… - Robert Hugh Benson
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... t…
While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy… - Robert Hugh Benson
While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy…
You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love. - Robert Hugh Benson
You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.
Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed. - Robert Hugh Benson
Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.
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