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The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

F. H. Bradley

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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 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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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 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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