"A propensity to hope and joy is real……" — David Hume

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."

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216 Quotes by David Hume

David Hume has 216 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most…
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with…
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with…
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by…
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…

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More Anticipation Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she… — Francis Beaumont
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and… — Dirk Benedict
He who matures early lives in anticipation. — Theodor Adorno
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never… — Josh Billings
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. — Hal Borland
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. — George Burns
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie

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