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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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