But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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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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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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