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.
F. H. BRADLEYBut when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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