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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.
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.
 F. H. Bradley

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
 F. H. Bradley
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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
 F. H. Bradley
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
 F. H. Bradley
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
 F. H. Bradley