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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.

F. H. Bradley

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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth

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