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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

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