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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
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
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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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 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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

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