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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

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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 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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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 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
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself

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