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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

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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature 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
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
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
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst

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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