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Persons Quotes by David Hume
- Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
- And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles…
- A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full…
- Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
- [A personÂ’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
- 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.
- Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
- When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this…
- 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…
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