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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

F. H. Bradley

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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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

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