"Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate……" — David Hume
"Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likelyto be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small thatit scarcely admits of calculation."
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216 Quotes by David Hume
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
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