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Quality Quotes by David Hume
- To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of…
- ... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and…
- ... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open…
- No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and…
- We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and…
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
- Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry,…
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
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- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
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