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.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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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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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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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The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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