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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

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person 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
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.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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Application Encouragement Feeling
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 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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
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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