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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

F. H. Bradley

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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