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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley

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.
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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
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
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
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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Goodness Reason Teaching
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
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True

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