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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

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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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 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
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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 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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing

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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