True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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 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 world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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