Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
F. H. BRADLEYBut when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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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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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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