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Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would shew him, as a specimen of its ills, an hospital full of diseases, a prison crowd...
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The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think of a wound, we ...
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The distinction, which we often make betwixt power and the exercise of it, is equally without foundation.
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Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men; because they always purchase pleasures, such as men are accustomed to, and desire: Nor can a...
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
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Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatev...
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If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by c...
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I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light, as would re...
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Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: and has often, ...
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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
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Doctor, as I believe you would not choose to tell any thing but the truth, you had better tell him, that I am dying as fast as my enemies, if I have any, could wish, and as easily and cheerfully as my best friends could desire.
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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company
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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?' No. 'Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?' No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
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Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account
By David Hume