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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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
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
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
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

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

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