Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
F. H. BRADLEYTrue penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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