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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.

F. H. Bradley

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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True

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