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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

F. H. Bradley

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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

Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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 hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
F. H. BRADLEY

Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
F. H. BRADLEY

Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking

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