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.
F. H. BRADLEYUp to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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