The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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One 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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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