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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

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
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
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
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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
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 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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking

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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