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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. ↗

— David Hume

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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

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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. ↗

— David Hume

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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ↗

— David Hume

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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. ↗

— David Hume

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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. ↗

— David Hume

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. ↗

— David Hume

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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Men often act knowingly against their interest. ↗

— David Hume

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