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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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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

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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. ↗

— David Hume

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— 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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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. ↗

— David Hume

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

— David Hume

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Everything in the world is purchased by labor. ↗

— 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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