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Wise Quotes by David Hume
- God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
- ... 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…
- It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous…
- In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.…
- It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But…
- A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
- 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…
- Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
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