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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.

F. H. Bradley

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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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 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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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

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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