Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEYThe deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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