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

F. H. Bradley

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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
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

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

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