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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

F. H. Bradley

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
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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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
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
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

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

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