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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

F. H. Bradley

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge 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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

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