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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

F. H. Bradley

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake 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
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 hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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Application Encouragement Feeling
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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