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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
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

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