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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

F. H. Bradley

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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Goodness Reason Teaching
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

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