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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.

F. H. Bradley

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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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Goodness Reason Teaching
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
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
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
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

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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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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