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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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 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
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

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