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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

F. H. Bradley

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
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
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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
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
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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