True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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.F. H. Bradley
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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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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