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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.

F. H. Bradley

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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion

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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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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