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Arthur Christopher Benson was a 19th-century English essayist and poet. Arthur Christopher Benson, was an English essayist, poet and academic, who served as the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the lyrics of Edward Elgar's Coronation Ode, including the words of the patriotic song "Land of Hope and Glory" (1902). His literary criticism, poems, and volumes of essays were highly regarded. He was also noted as an author of ghost stories. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.”
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.”
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“I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.”
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