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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

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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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 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 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
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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 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
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
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret

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