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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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 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
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
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue

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