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

F. H. Bradley

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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
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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret

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