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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may read more
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity read more
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.
Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable read more
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Love is just a word until it is proven to you.
Love is just a word until it is proven to you.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.