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.
F. H. BRADLEYOne said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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 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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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