There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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 world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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