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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
F. H. BRADLEY

Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
F. H. BRADLEY

Neighbor Person Thinking
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY

Admire Happiness Secret
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEY

Fake Philosophy Truth
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. BRADLEY

Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
F. H. BRADLEY

Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. BRADLEY

Interest Person Shock
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEY

Best Evil Necessary Possible World

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