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.
F. H. BRADLEYI 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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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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