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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

F. H. Bradley

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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 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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation

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