“Remarried widowers, it has been observed, tend to confound the persons of their wives. The reason, I suppose, is that they identify the substance.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
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“Self-sacrifice is too often the ‘great sacrifice’ of trade, the giving cheap what is worth nothing.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
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“The secret of happiness is to admire with-out desiring. And that is not happiness.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
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“There are things it is well to abstain from only upon the condition that we cease to desire them.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
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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, Aphorisms
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“A man may find, when he is in love, that in reality his principles were only other feelings.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
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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.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
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“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
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“Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.” — F. H. Bradley, Appearance and Reality, preface