An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
F. H. BRADLEYI can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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