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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

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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
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
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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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 who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue

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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