The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEYMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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