The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
F. H. BRADLEYThe man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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