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. BRADLEYAn aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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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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