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

F. H. Bradley

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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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

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