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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.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
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
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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

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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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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