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

F. H. Bradley

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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

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