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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

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