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

F. H. Bradley

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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 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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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
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

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