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

F. H. Bradley

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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
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
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
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
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
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

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

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