Robert Hugh Benson Quotes

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Youth is a disease that must be borne with patiently! Time, indeed, will cure it.

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 true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.

Robert Hugh Benson

There are few catastrophes so great and irremediable as those that follow an excess of zeal.

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 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.

Robert Hugh Benson

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

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.

Robert Hugh Benson

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson

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Born: November 18, 1871

Died: October 19, 1914 (aged 42)

Bio: Robert Hugh Benson was an English Anglican priest who in 1903 was received into the Roman Catholic Church in which he was ordained priest in 1904. He wrote the notable novel Lord of the World.

Known for:

Lord of the World (1907)
Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912)
The Dawn of All (1911)
The Necromancers (1907)
Confessions of a convert (1913)

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