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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

F. H. Bradley

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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Application Encouragement Feeling
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking

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