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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

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
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
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
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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