The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
F. H. BRADLEYAdam 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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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