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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.

F. H. Bradley

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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Goodness Reason Teaching
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
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking

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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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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