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aphorisms

«An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience»
Author: Francis Herbert Bradley | About: Aphorisms | Keywords: aphorism, aphorisms
«Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.»
«It's the danger of the aphorism that it states too much in trying to be small»
Author: George Douglas | Keywords: aphorism, aphorisms
«How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.»
«He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.»
«A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.»
«`Character,' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - `character is destiny.'»
«An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.»
«One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.»
«Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest, and best of men is but an aphorism»

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