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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

Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. BRADLEY

Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEY

Repeat Silence True Willing
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World

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