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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.

F. H. Bradley

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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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