But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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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.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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