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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
- David Hume
#Everything
#Labor
#Purchased
#World
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
- David Hume
#Growth
#Knowledge
#Learning
#True
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
- David Hume
#Fear
#Hope
#Joy
#Poverty
#Real
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
- David Hume
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#Day
#Miracles
#Person
#Religion
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
- David Hume
#Falsehood
#Miracle
#More
#Testimony
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
- David Hume
#Best
#Corruption
#Rise
#Things
#Worst
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
- David Hume
#Education
#Good
#History
#Learning
#Men
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
- David Hume
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#Even
#Purpose
#Stupid
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
- David Hume
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#Moral
#More
#Natural
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
- David Hume
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#Belief
#Imagination
#Nothing
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
- David Hume
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#Errors
#Only
#Religion
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
- David Hume
#Circumstances
#Happy
#More
#Suit
#Temper
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
- David Hume
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#Hate
#Love
#Nothing
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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
- David Hume
#Place
#Real
#Start
#Sweat
#Together
Custom is the great guide to human life.
- David Hume
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#Guide
#Human Life
#Human
#Life
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
- David Hume
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#Once
#Seldom
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
- David Hume
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#Great
#Hell
#Men
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
- David Hume
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#Morality
#Our
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#Rules
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
- David Hume
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#Rise
#Sun
#Tomorrow
#Will
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
- David Hume
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#Argument
#Friends
#Truth
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
- David Hume
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#Obey
#Pretend
#Reason
#Serve
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
- David Hume
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#Life
#Man
#Oyster
#Universe
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
- David Hume
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#Evidence
#Man
#Wise Man
#Wise
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- David Hume
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#Patriotism
#Power
#Tyranny
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
- David Hume
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#Against
#Interest
#Men
#Often
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume
#Beauty
#Mind
#Them
#Things
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